If you are seeing jaggy blocks of color it is probably due to smoothing errors in your model. Specifically, spherical environment mapping only works well when the entire object is smoothed (I'm talking about the normals, not the polygons.) Please post some screenshots or the model in question; it is really hard to diagnose visual problems from a written description.
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