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Abacus Repaint

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Hey Folks Has anyone really got any good use out of Abacus' FS Repaint. I can't get it to paint the areas of textures that have alpha channels. When I repaint the texture it all looks good but when I look at the airplane huge areas didn't get painted. I clicked and cussed and tried a different plane and got the same result. Then I really started cussing, but I clicked enough to find out that the areas that the paint "didn't stick to" were the areas that jumped up when I viewed the Alpha Channel. So I clicked the heck out of the help file only to find out that Abacus has the following to say about alpha channels: "For Flight Sim textures, the Alpha channel contains transparency or reflective information about the texture that Flight Sim uses to adjust how the texture is drawn.In most cases, you will not need to edit the alpha channel on textures"Further investigation found:"The texture at the lower middle that is black with a half-circle is the texture that is applied to the propeller when it

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