When I go into my new skin created for DNN 05.06.02 (144) (the new skin is a duplicate of an existing skin with a new skin folder name), I wanted to remove the breadcrumb from appearing on these pages. 

Removing the breadcrumb removes the padded table and its spacing so that's not an option. Although I was successfully able to suppress the breadcrumb by setting the rootlevel to 5 which we don't currently have thus nothing appears in the Breadcrumb (perfect!). But when I do this it changes the middle content pane to change from a white background to gray and moves the search box which used to be above the title bar to on top of the title bar.