Thanks guys. I'm walking away from the PC now after about....11 hours of work on this thing (off and on). Those checkerboards are a nightmare... No, you can't just copy and paste them from the B because it doesn't fit. However, I started with that to give me a pattern to work with.
Now that I've finally figured out how to see all my layers and click to them directly (there's a layer palette icon I'd never seen before!) I'm going to be a much happier guy.
I'm gonna' miss the white nose.