You guys have won me over, I think I'll be joining this race after all!

And to maulepilot117, who asked what programme I use to repaint, I personally use Photoshop to paint, but there's a lot of other ones that are just as good, like PaintShopPro, or the GIMP (which is free). I also use DTXTbmp to convert the texture files. I'd offer a link, but I can't for the life of me remember where it can be found...