Thanks for those tips. I have the weekend to work on this, so I think i'll go ahead and make a nice texture for the tiles in GIMP, and apply it to the tiles. some shadow and depth between the tiles would also be a good idea.
I'll post back with my results.

fair enough, i've re uploaded and taken away the darkness.

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prkos, those are exactly what i need!

Thanks!

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screencasts.heathenx.org has a nice screencast on this process:
http://screencasters.heathenx.org/episode-016/