First of all check your normals by going under Display >> Polygon display >> Long Normals (or medium/short whatever you want). If you see a normal that needs to be reversed select the face/-s and go...

You have to be in object mode to be able to save out your uv layout.

You could use the append to polygon tool instead aswell. It'll do exactly the same thing that you want to do, with the difference that you have to create each polygon "bridge" individually.

Press F9. This will take you into vertex component mode and you wont go out of it by clicking in the wrong place. This works for several modes being:

F9 - Vertices
F10 - Edges
F11 - Faces

And...

To me it sounds like the normals of the two faces are facing opposite ways. To check this select your model and go to "Display >> Polygon Component >> Normals". The points sticking out of each face...

The UV Texture Editor is for Polygon objects. What you have is a nurbs object (unless you've changed the options for revolve).

If you really want to use the UV texure editor you could convert your...

You have to extract the faces you want to separate first. The extract command is under the "Edit Polygons" menu. Before you do this make sure you have "Keep faces together" on.

Make sure that the name format is set to "name.#.ext".

Short answer use Virtualdub

Lt Jim: You can use FCheck (found in the startmenu together with Maya) to batch convert all of your images. Open your animation in there and then save it using another format such as jpeg. For future...