Hay Brother MIce,
Yup I am working on mine and wanted to post and say thanks guys for the help so far on getting me in the right direction on planet building, mainly Brother Oshyan /bows thanks man /smiles.
OK, I started making my changes and I went to far hahaha rotfl lolol, and I got a planet that had black holes in it, and while it could be cool as an effect for a planet under attack? it was not what I wanted. Here is the screen, I got a good laugh, so thought you guys would as well:

So then I sat down and started Tweaking like a mother Fo, and finally got the planet under my control much better as you can see in this shot here:

Heheh no more black hole. Ok, so if anyone is in need of help as well or needs to take a look at this file I can post it to this point if anyone is in need of it. Took me a couple of days of tweaking in my spare time so it was not easy, for me anyway hahaha /smiles.
Oh also I had taken the camera down to the 1800m and took a shot to see what it looked like on the service? and I got those darn anamolies again from the way the rendering breaks up the render again

I hope it gets fixed in the next updated version. I photoshoped it to post, but hay, in the render window and in the low rendering I did of it, it looked great, just happened when I did a hi rez render at the end. Here is what I mean:

Posting this here since it was all kind of the same project. OK, I think I can get my stuff ready before the deadlines and rendered, and most of what I need to do now is in Max and XSI as well as move all this around so it is different again /winks, so unless someone needs this base file? I am good to go /smiles and thanks again to all that helped me get on the right track, you are all awesome in my book.
DeathTwister