Thank you, Thip. There's always more than one way to solve this problem. This sounds like a great idea for someone who might be doing comics or other storytelling where textures will get used more than once, as the material editor will remember the paths--for a session! Wouldn't one have to save the materials in the user library to keep them between sessions? Folks, i printed out the instructions a while back, so the URLs on there somewhere! i will definitely try for it tonight.