The triangles generated by your nurbs patches can be painted by going into paint mode as shown in the Creating Land for a Scene tutorial:
http://www.seamless3d.com/creating-land/index.html
Going into Paint mode will automatically select a part node but you may want to manually select a part node if your patch is referencing a particular part.
For some reason I find it necessary from time to time to click on the fill button and then back on the brush button in order to open the brush control panel.
I have not written any more Techuelife Island news since November 2001. Although a few articles were submitted by friends, most of it was written by me incorporating lines into the plot that were said by friends while we played about in Techuelife Island in blaxxun chat. I had more material for the story but sadly I never got round to adding it as my time was taken up on other issues like for example the threat of blaxxun pulling the plug on their servers caused me to focus developing seamless chat. Now that I want to spend more time making movies, I have thought about turning the story into a movie.
I don't really want to add any more submissions to the Techuelife Island news at this time but please feel free to write your own variation of it and let us know about any updates you have made here on the forum.
Can you please send me a smls file by email that shows up the bug as it is hard for me to guess what the problem might be if I am not regularly experiencing it myself.
If you are interested, when I get a moment, I will see if I can get the seamless chat server running from my computer so that we can chat in a cut down version of techuelife island that has been adapted for seamless chat.
best wishes