mark, I'm assuming you got the texture with the hair. The transparency maps are what make hair seem 'realistic'. Set your max and min sliders (transparency) for the hair to 100%. That's a start. Now--if you want to change color, a good way to start is to play with the color and ambient color. For instance--I changed my ambient color to a medium brown red and got a nice reddish strawberry blonde (if you do this, don't forget to change the color of your 2 eyebrows to blend G). In the store there was a set of Michael hair textures, but you can do similarly by opening the hair texture in a graphics program and playing with changing colors of the original text (BE SURE--to change the name when you save or you will overwrite the blond tex map).