that would make a ton of people gracious!! any expert modders out there that could post how will be thanked!

you could follow this tute:
RECOLOURING OBJECTS with OBJECT WORKSHOP
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=102356

but you will need time and patience to do it maybe have a look at these:
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=98300
http://forums.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=97768

ps heres a hint of what your up against

the pic is the exact image that was used to create my
london red chimney brick-driveway

or third to the right in the screenshot here:
https://thumbs2.modthesims2.com/imag...-screenshot.jpg

Why not just use the invisible driveway recolour and terrain paints? You can create the illusion of a curved driveway that way (or before you put the driveway down, put down small fences and fill them with floor tiles). I would way rather have the versatility of being able to use any terrain paint or floor tile than to have a ton of recolours of the driveway.

There's not going to be a tutorial specifically on recolouring driveways, and there's no way of telling whether the driveway is even mapped to do what you want it to do. It's possible that the pieces in the center repeat, so you may not be able to recolour curved - solid or nothing. I have a tutorial on exporting uv maps to make better recolours - it's written for clothing but works essentially the same for objects. That would be your first step. Other than that Numenor's tutorial on recolouring with Object Workshop should be sufficient. You'd use a transparent PNG to test a curved driveway and use a DXT setting of 3 to retain the transparency when importing your texture.

Great minds must think alike. I stepped away from the computer before reading the whole thread and while I was doing what I was doing came up with the exact same solution. Cool...