Make sure that texturing is disabled. You say that you eventually want to texture it, which makes me suspicious that texturing is enabled. Since you''re not changing any texture coordinates it will use one point on the texture for each vertex, which just happens to be black.

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Man your good null! It was because of the Texturing. I just slapped a texture on it, and now i have it! Thnx a million man. I''m sure i will have more problems tommorow, so be ready!!