By the way, if you REALLY wanted to use the default hair, you'd not only have to thin out the mesh, but you'd pretty much have to re-map it, because as I mentioned in my first post, the original map is really strange and just about impossible to create a quality tex for (forget about drawing straight lines!!!). In fact, you'd really need to kind of tear it apart into separate pieces in order to draw the hair going to right direction everywhere. It'll be easier to just start from scratch.