aprilrosanina, what you wrote made a lot of sense, I could even follow it! :) But, the only problem is that when I 'select all' and 'delete', the main "green" color still stays there. I am interpreting this as that the material is not being removed. I went to Material room. Selected 'bodyskin' for the mil dragon, Rclick/select all, Rclick/Delete and my Diffuse node is still green. I went ahead and followed the rest of the instructions and after I linked my image-map node to 'Diffuse', it stayed green. hmmm.