Has anybody tried the 3d texture paint mode yet? I heard a lot of good things about 3d paint programs. I heard they are much easier to make a texture for a model. Which would be great! I have a hard time imagining what an object would look like in 3d, when it plotted on the 2d plane.

yah, its alot like a mix between uv mode and sculpt mode.  as for texturing a model, no it wouldnt make it easier.  uv texturing is usefull for taking pictures and plotting them to a model as well as using pictures or photoshoped images as bumpmaps, which just isnt as powerfull when you do it by hand.

I think the most powerful texture route is to UV map, apply a procedural and bake it, then manually adjust the procedural and apply as image map.....

(for organics that is)

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Toolset: Blender, GIMP, Indigo Render, LuxRender, TopMod, Knotplot, Ivy Gen, Plant Studio.

I was thinking about UV mapper Pro, but now all I think I need is some UV texturing tutorials for Blender. Playing around with texture painting in blender made me realize, there is a whole world here I need to learn.
 I was hoping that I chould get away with just learning 3-D texture painting, but had noticed it don't have a clone tool. I need that to do photorealistic textures.
Thank you for your prompt responses.

PS.  Is there any good tutorials for UV texturing in blender?

i have a mini tutorial up here that maps a leaf texture to a grid for low poly leaf models

Attached Link: http://biorust.com/index.php?page=tutorial_detail&tutid=85

This is the tut that got me started in blender but I already had a fair idea of what it was about from using 3ds max

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Toolset: Blender, GIMP, Indigo Render, LuxRender, TopMod, Knotplot, Ivy Gen, Plant Studio.

Sorry it took so long to get back to you.  I had to clear my CMOS, I'm been trying to get a hard drive to work.  With no luck at all. 
Thank you for the links to the tutorials.  I am going to make some time to do them this week.
Again thank you very much.