Can you recheck your upload just to verify it? Any textures I've made that are 24bit, when I view them with biturn it displays as a translucent rainbow color and, I can also extract them and it becomes a small 40x40 rainbow colored .bmp.
Also, I think your buster sword is really good, but after playing Crisis Core, I like to stick to that look
Hell, I would even be up for combining APZ texture with yours, so I only have to use RTAD. I just can't extract the damn thing...
Just tested with unaltered files... Using the original apz cloud, and extracting everything you provided in place of those files, the swords still turn up white and I get an error opening rtaa