Sorry, I forgot just how DRASTIC the rendering/material handling changes were between 07 and 08... I opened it up in 2007 instead of 2008 this time and made the alterations. I think something was lost in translation.
I got it to work in 08, but sorry, pal, 07 seems to not want to rotate anything, or supply any means of doing so. I've never used the standard wood/marble materials though, whenever I had wood materials, I used the standard diffuse map and bump map methods and simply chose wood images for the maps.