Hello Again
With UV mapper, when I had it to "colour by group" it showed as being all one colour (as per the image here). But as you can see...it seems to have the beard bottom overlaying the beard top, and some strands thrown in for good measure. Now I know this all doesnt matter too much with beards, cuz a great deal of it is burried under texture and transperancies anyway...but if there is something I am missing it would be great to know, if something like this should occur with other objects as well.

As for the robe suggestion....I will still have to check that out :)

Thanx

Rawn