[Latest official Second Life viewer 3.2.8.2 Freezing]

Dont use the secondlife viewer.

[How to extract a texture from a UUID?]

you could use the uuid in a script to apply texture to a prim with full bright large enough to take a screen shot but thats all i can think of.

[I can't enter my Visa card in the system, even though I have money in my account]

calling billing will just get you that they are working on it still (or gone home for the weekend and work on it monday after lunch)

[Scheduled Billing Maintenance]

Billing has not worked since they did this "maintenacne" then went home for the weekend

[Billing Issues]

i did call billing support and all they said is that they are working on it, why is not this posted in gird status page? theres a post for the 7th that says resolved im sure that when it started to be broken...