Hey scott. Help me, because I'm hearing two different problems from your post.

1)Is this what you were trying to write:
Q)I'm "getting the jpeg onto a plane" and the file "would not open." Another JPEG "came up with missing" sections of the image, on the object.
A)If an image won't open check to see if the file is being used by another app. A virus scanner can keep you from opening a file if it's doing routine work. If parts of your image are missing once on the object, you will have to go to the modifier stack and edit the UVW map.

2)I also reworded your question. Tell me if this is what you were trying to ask.
Q)In the end, I "tried to export" and image using the rendering system but the outcome "was really pixelated."
A)This sounds like a render setting but I don't want to jump to conclusions with out hearing more about how you're "exporting" an image out of max. There's more than one way.

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And where does Max 2008 fit into all of this?

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I thought this was going to be a backwards compatibility issue.
I was ready to say, "You can not open a 2009 project in 2008"

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Chris

Who knows. That might turn out to be the solution.

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Sorry for the bad grammer,
1st Worked on 3ds 2009 at home, Work have 3ds 2008, set up drawing with a base plane as working off jpeg, inseted jpeg.
Started to map out " contors, Boundary and a few others".
Saved and when in work tryed to open it on there machine, did not fail to open opened the existing shape, the jpeg would not import.
then tryed to set up new plane but the jpeg was pixelated, very large, plane set to jpeg properties
3349 x 2349 even tryed there after 33490 x 23490 and so on but this resulted in the same.
Home is a laptop a bit slow and will not keep up, work a workstaion,
Scott

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Are the units of measure set the same at work and home? Try making the plane smaller??
I didn't think you could open 2009 project in 2008, I know you can't from 2008 to max 9

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Chris

I always wonder if people are using text translators to communicate on this forums.

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Ich dachte nie wirklich an den,…, das ich Ihr Recht wettete. Kommunikationszusammenbruch!!!! hahahaha

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Chris

Su puesto bastante bien. Pero el alemán es realmente cerca de Inglés. Traducción de un idioma de Asia debe ser un reto para un computador.

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Si

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Chris

No hay una cierta expresión de la gente en texto una poco más pobre que otras que es qué hace que el mundo circunda

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Point well taken
I didn't mean any offense.

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Chris

Kein Ausdruck einiger Leute im Text ist ein wenig schlechteres als andere, das ist, was die Welt umhergehen lässt

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I'm guessing you are having the problem of the jpeg image looking pixelated in the max viewport right? You need to change your display driver settings and get max to display a higher resolution preview of the textures. use direct x and increase the texture resolution in the driver settings.

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That's good!

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Chris

Hahah, I cant moderate any of these foreign languages... so no talking about illegal stuff in foreign languages!!!

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Siya nagbebenta ng dagat shells down sa baybayin ng dagat!!!!! (english>filipino dosn't seem to work that well)

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I used Babel Fish to translate, nothing illegal here.

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Chris