quite possible…is doing that necessary? I mapped this texture to my shape LONG ago, while I was still using 2.49b…and it will periodically disappear! Can’t say exactly when, bcs I’ll usually be focusing on something else, then suddenly I’ll notice that my texture map isn’t there…
I haven’t had this problem, but I had problem with armature pose. I posed something, save file, hit render and the pose would be gone (even after reloading the file). I did this 5 times before I figured out the sequence needed to be, pose, save file, close blender, open blender, load file then render. It was frustrating.