thanks for the comments, and yes I plan to tweak uv's a bit more today, since I just wanted to go to bed last night by the time I got this far.

my turn for the question now since I need to answer your question with another question.

"Also are you going to use a wrap deformer to drive the higl poly character with the low poly?"

what is a wrap deformer?
my plan is to uv and texture this guy, then use the poly smooth to finish it. Is there something I'm missing in this process? Not possible to do correctly or something? Just curious, I don't want to end up with a lot of trouble on my hands to find out that I forgot something along the way.