Works in W3viewer Not in W3

First let me say that this forum has been the single most helpfull resorce that i could find as a new w3 map maker that out of the way,

I have a small problem every model ive reskined for war3 has worked perfectly except one the water elemental, i reskined him as a sand elemental took care of the water blobs and anything that wasnt A. all alfa channels or B. team colors (the ribbons) and i thought i had taken care of it because my handy dandy warcraft 3 viewer gave me the ok with a perfect run of animations no glitches bad areas nothing

so i thought it was all set and moved on , but low and behold when i load up war 3 and try out all the textures only the lonely sand(water)elemental messes up on me he has a .7 second flicker of solid blue constantly but the textures look fine when they dont flicker and the flicker stays constant no matter what animation hes doing

then i look at a moon well and see that the moonwell has the same flicker i figure maybe they have a shared texture check and no go the moonwell uses another texture for the water different path and all, so im stumped why the does the elemental and the unmoded moonwell (and only them) flicker a textureless blue as regular as a metranome in war 3 but not the viewer.

does this sound farmiliar to anyone, or any suggestions ?

im not totally sure this is it but did you replace all the lords0000 textures? theres eight of them...
textures\lords0000
textures\lords0001
textures\lords0002... and so on up to textures\lords0007

or did you only replace one of them? or did you replace the waterblobs blp?

again... im not positive, but im too lazy to check. if this isnt it then i dont know what it.

yah all of em from lords0000 to lords0007 and the blobs only thing i didnt do was the shockwavewater and the ribbonblur1 but why would that make the moonwell flicker? see thats why im dubble stumped, heh

i cant help you then, sorry. i've never skinned the water elemental. thats odd though.