So, apparently there are some issues with the work station I've been using at school. Even though the textures have been added they aren't showing up in the program (although they are there in the nodes and show up in the texture preview) and when you pull up the texture area it really starts to wig out as  shown in the screen shot below.

But, at least I"m DONE with the TEXTURING exercise so it's off to the next one!

Image taken from home with all the textures (school computer didn't show them all):