Look, this is apparently a 55 page cluster-you-know-what. Let's get an official website, set up and SVN server and go to work. It's completely impossible to figure out what in the world is going on in a thread of this size. If you're worried about licensing and copyright, read a little about the
Creative Commons license.
Wouldn't it be so much easier for someone to make a texture, have someone review it, and if it's accepted immediately upload it to the SVN server complete with changelog?
Running any type of project from a single forum thread is always a disaster.
Moreover, let's setup an IRC channel on Freenode or one of the other big networks so information will flow a little more easily.
We also need some guidelines for how the textures should look, ie textures look like the old texture, just as a higher resolution and possibly more detail to exclude brand new looking items and icons.