hans, thank you for the reply, i did find that file, but it doesn't seem able to convert fsx repaints to fs2004 repaints, of course with my little computer knowledge, i could be doing it wrong
does anyone out there have these 2 files that they could send to me please, ive looked all around and cannot find them, they are bmp2dxt3.zip and FS2004 AI Texture Converter - BMP/DXT From DDS Repaints by matthew ministry, thank you scott