You're welcome. The only thing I can tell you about archived tuts is that if you go to www.jasc.com
on the Support Menu then click on Learning Center; you'll find archived
tutorials for previous versions of PSP as well as the Guest Authored
and Third Party tutorials listed on the right hand side of the page.
3D Metal Here:
http://www.state-of-entropy.com/
Metal Text
http://www.nansons-place.com/nontut/8doodles/metal-text/metal-text.htm
Nice Effect on both of these sites:
http://psptuts.sleepytimedreams.com/pm4.html
http://www.graphicbuds.com/tutorials/metal/index.html
Easy Gradient Fill for Smooth Metallic Text:
http://www.jaguarwoman.com/jagtut2.html
Have any of them helped yet?