John Burnett has released a new material plugin for max 5 and 6 called WarpTexture. With it you can distort one texture using another texture. Each RGB component of the warp texture will distort the corresponding UVW/XYZ value of the Target texture (ie. the warp red will push the Target texture along U/X). You can get it here.
New plugin from John Burnett
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