TGA not behaving

Usually it's because they have been saved as 24bit colour instead of 32bit

Still showing up white, how bizarre

Maybe it's because you have an image with several frames and the first one happens to completely white, I think SS shows the first frame of an image...? Also make sure you have your alpha channels set up correctly, that could be another place to look.

each frame is transperent, i even made the first frams an empty transparent to see if that fixed it, as for alpha channels i've no idea what they should be in photoshop cs, I don't look at stuff while its working the way i want

Thanks tho i'll check it out

A TGA file can only be transparent if it contains an alpha channel. Once you have your shape in a layer, hold ctrl and click the layer (ctrl+shift if the shape consists of several layers), then go to channels and make a new one. A channel called aplha channel (or something like that) should appear, it's completely black, just fill your s election with white. The white fill is the magic key, since ít defines which part of the TGA is visible. All the black is the transparent areas. You could even give it a bit of gaussian blur to smooth the edges further (about 0,3 px). I guess it's a multi-frame image, so make a rectangular selction over the first frame in the aplha channel, click the move tool, hold down alt+shift and drag a copy of the selction to the right. Repeat this until your alpha channel is filled. Then save the file as TGA. You can't have a transparent background in a TGA the same way as a PNG, you have to use alpha channels.
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XP/2000 are the only OS's that support TGA's.

Captain, Assuming I understand the prob you are having, I have had some success by deleting the original attribute and then importing a new image.

All i was missing was the alpha channel I always forget about the channels, but yeah NTrain that works a treat too and ummm thanks Meow i assume you got mixed up