The image directory being the VV3 image directory. I don't see how else you could start with 100-plus layers, unless you composited it from the images, rather than screenshots. And I have no idea why copying those images into photoshop would bring along all that baggage; most of the images I've worked with are just straight .png files with a few transparent areas, and no alpha channels; just the straight RGB set.

Either you're doing something other than what I'm thinking, or image files I haven't worked with are of a much more complex design.

On a random note, I'm a light-to-medium skilled photoshop user; meaning basically that I'm still working on learning more advanced techniques, but you should be able to talk to me and assume I know how it works 80% of the time. Anything I don't get, you can be sure I'll tear into the help files for; learning new tricks is always appreciated.