Can someone post a picture of these issues?
That's a very good idea. Pictures would allow for everyone to understand what textures people are seeing. It's possible that some people are complaining about having the "bad" textures, when in fact they are seeing the correct medium/high textures and this doesn't meet their standards!
The trouble is that you have to take photos of the screen, which look pretty bad. But anyway, here's some of my pics. These textures are consistent and I've never seen them look any better than this, running from disc, HDD or a USB stick:
Starting with lovely Windhelm:
[img]http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/8131/skyrimtextures07.jpg[/img]
Should this look better?
[img]http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/6479/skyrimtextures06.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img810.imageshack.us/img810/1608/skyrimtextures04.jpg[/img]
Tables and things:
[img]http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/3751/skyrimtextures05.jpg[/img]