Help? Frosting hair isn't working! :P

Included is a picture of what I am seeing and the settings in the edit box to hopefully help someone out in figuring out what I am doing wrong? This is texture number three. The first two textures up loaded fine, this one *seemed* to upload fine as, you can see in the picture, it displays right. But what ever color is in the color box is the color of the prim. What I want is white tips which fades to the rose color of the hair which is why I made the new texture(s) to do just that. Gradient textures at that, white that fades to rose, just like I want the hair to do, white tips that fade to rose color. Now why did texture one and two work fine (though the wrong orientation, was frosting from left to right and right to left, not tip to base.) but the third is all mucked up? Thanks!

Rose

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a395/llloyd4/FrostingHairscreenshot.jpg

It doesn't look messed up to me at all. It just looks like you need to increase the repeats per face. Each hair prim is a section of a sphere, right? Well, with the way you've got it set at 1 repeat per face, the entire texture wraps once around the entire sphere. Since you're only seeing part of the sphere, you're only seeing part of the texture. Crank up the repeats, and you'll see more of it.

As for the ones that went side to side instead of end to end, that's what the rotation setting on the texture tab is for. Simply rotate it 90 degrees from whatever it was already set on.