I can see it in the UV Editor and when I turn on hardware texturing, I can see it looks right. Only when I render it, does it show up with a blank render. Did you get this fixed? I'm may be having the same issue... today I hit render: using mental ray and only got a black screen. tried maya software and also got a black screen. Tried maya vector and got a black screen. tried maya hardware and it rendered... is that what you where describing?