I think I might be getting some where.Hair Shader with a little tweeking

Mouth shaders coming along. pretty much the same as the skin with a couple of tweaks. Top has infinite light pointing straight in, bottom is only indirect from sphere.

Yes it is ghost - it's a superb book that does morethan simply explains every single node.

@bagginsbill : Do you have your remapped ground plane available for those of us who would like to use it?

A draft test of my render. I wish the reflection looked better.

OK, I tried out the full Cycles method and got it to work . . . soft of. It turns out, the only way I can get it to cover the whole front face was to plug the ImageTexture into the TextureCoordinate's Window node. The others either look like warped versions of my test texture, or the texture only covered the bottom half, with the top and some of the bottom solid black. That's why I started experimenting with the other TextureCoordinate nodes to see if I could cover it all. The problem now is, it's twice the size it should be, so how do I get it to display as I originally had it? You can see the difference, as the backfacing texture is still the original Image_Map setup.

On a sort of related note, is there any way to make a MAT file that only effects the specular settings?

@caisson I think the information I got was during a discussion with snarlygribbly on settings for the EZskin program. He can correct me if I didn't recall that right, as well could be the case.