Thank you for the reply, speckfire.
I have the files there in the TempTextures folder as well (if I listed all of the places I've tried placing these textures in to get it to work, I'd have a FAR longer post lol), however when you say replace, do you mean that when those files are there in the TempTextures folder they are meant to overwrite existing .dds texture files there (because these are my .dds files are the only MiG textures there) or just placing them with the same name as one of the other already existing textures will allow my textures to be read instead of the others (if that makes any sense).
I'm just afraid of overwriting any of the default texture files with this in case they still don't work is all.
BTW, kickass paint you have there.