Rich asked:
Why are these (the maps) tossed into a separate folder?
The history is that Fractint for a long time included a small number of maps, then at one point there was interest in collecting a lot of maps, and since there was a volunteer, the team said "go for it". To be honest I never liked the map collection, not because the volunteer didn't do a good job, but because all the maps cluttered things up and made it hard to find everything. I guess we never could bring ourselves to stop distributing the collection, but at some point tried to restore sanity and put them in a directory.
Is it the copyright that's holding us back from integrating these items instead of leaving them orphaned in the extra folder?
Not at all. In fact the idea of copyrighting a palette is amusing ... <grin!> There's room for discussion on considerations for how the extras stuff should be organized or what should included. Tim