TeX Live and MacTeX ⇒ kile, livetex and MiKtek -- .sty files missing

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I have a working MiKtek/Winedt system on my triple boot laptop (OpenSolaris/Ubunut/WinXP). Most of my work is under Ubuntu and I would like to actually do some writing while my experiments run in the background. So I installed a Kile/livetex (the default from the Ubuntu repositories) to my system.

It appears that not all the style files are installed (I tried installing additional packages from the ubuntu repositories, but I am still getting .sty files missing errors). Since I already have these .sty files in my MiKtek/Winedt and I automatically mount my WinXP drives on startup, I created a symbolic link to my MiKtek/Winedt directory structure and then performed a mktexlsr instruction to update the index files. A gedit /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE shows that the files have been successfully included in the index files. However, kpsewhich <filename.sty> does not succeed for the .sty files I wanted to add and kile returns a <filename.sty> missing error when I attempt to compile my files. (PS: filename is the name of any of the .sty files I am trying to add).

I did a bit of googling and, as a result, tried to set the environment variable as follows TEXINPUTS=/usr/share/texmf-texlive/morefiles (where morefiles is the symbolic link I created), but the result is exactly the same. Any advice would be welcome.