I want to know what skills I need to try to level up

So... I want RS gold to know what skills I need to try to level up. Along the way, I would like to make money, so, rather skills that make money. The sudden demand for cash since I died and dropped my armor. Only the brine sabre, plateskirt, and shield were abandoned. Annoying.I'm currently wishing to return to Runescape and have several questions. I am an old school player that has been playing since RS Classic, and finally quit playing after the new trade rule came around a while back. I had a funny feeling it'd ruin the match, so I moved onto World of Warcraft instead. Having noticed Runescape still going strong & not needing to carry on paying the ￡8.99 subscription fee for WoW, I have decided to come back to Runescape and only put up with the newest trade system. It can't be that bad I suppose. I want to make a Pure Mage aswell... Anyway, on to the questions:

- Having been out of RS for some time now and having never made a mage before I am really not quite sure where to begin. I have an alt character (who I was going to develop to a ranger but never got around to it) who I will be making to a Pure Mage. His stats are: Combat Level - 32, Defence - 20, Ranged - 40, HP - 31. His other stats are at 0 now. Can his stats pose any issues, e.g. would I be better off starting from scratch as opposed to altering this personality to a mage?

- when I used to play there were items like Strength Pures etc, where their skills would be something like the following: Attack - 60 (so they could wield Dragon weapons), Power - 99 (To strike harder of course), Defence - 0 to 60 (some retained it at 0 so their battle level was comparatively low, whereas others made it to 60 or even 70 so as to use Dragon etc). The point is there strength was their highest combat skill therefore like I mentioned previously, their combat level was pretty low but they might hit extremely high amounts. That is what I would love to do with my mage, however I am not certain how to go about doing this. The issue with RS is (as I am sure you all know) that when you increase a skill you can not reduce it you're stuck with it, therefore I'd love to find out exactly what I am doing buy School RuneScape Gold until I go about making this character. What I do know however is that I want to keep prayer at 1.