idiot texture question

hiI am having problems getting my textures to show up on a new aircraft model in fs2002. Aircraft designed with fsds textues are indexed colour 8 bit bmp's.I have created a new model and copied the textures to the texture folder for the new model..... nothing.tried using an existing flight model with the testures ..again nothing.fsds texture pref points to fs2002 textures ,, tried pointing to my new model and to the texture file i used when designing them with fsds all with no resultsI am sure there is a simple answer to this but i am starting to run out of ideas.thanksJohn