Hello again everyone.....
OK, I'm now having better luck!
Look Ma, no bulges!
I did a little bit of editing using the UV mapping tool on Wings 3d....I still don't quite understand how it works (as it applied a checkerboard pattern to the edited texture in the program), but at least the results are closer to what was desired....of course, the .tga is still all messed up, but at least it is progress.
Just in case, what I was trying to accomplish is removing the bulges from the BB Sao Paulo clone of the BB Revenge so it looks more like the Sao Paulo.....if only I had more time than the weekends
One last observation.....I vaguely recall a feature asking for like "2.00" size or something like that in the UV editor....then, noticing the texture on the "missing bulges" part of the ship, they do appear to be larger versions of portholes... :hmm:
-Jeff