OMG, UnrealED and QERadaint are so hard to use, I thought, "Hey, I am preety good with hl mapping so this shouldnt be that bad!" Well... I felt like a little kid lost who lost their parents at the Super-K.
@Zombie: About the light previewing, I am kinda confused. Does it just show the lighting that you already have, or if you add new lights will it show them too(after doing the bsp thing)? When you say lighting and graphics dissapointed you, do you mean you actually have HL2 so that you can run your maps?!