Im a total noob too, so dont feel all alone LOL! That object up there in my last post is just straight out of Sketchup without any uv's or textures..I created my textures {512 x 512} inside PSP 7 and applied them in Vue and rendered it out...

Can you export at all with textures applied in Sketchup? I didn't think you could..{?} Im going to have to pull that program back out and look at it again...it really is a great modeling app