okay i think i get what you wanted, so you want to get the PC files of the skeletal bones reference and transfer it into your mac?

If you were able to find a PC to open the CD and view its files,...

So what is it that you want help on actually?

how to construct a skeletal bone structure on a certain animal?
or how to get the file from PC to mac?
or how skeleton bone works in maya?

I'm guessing 90% that maybe it's just windows vista, maybe maya isn't totally fixed to work 100% in vista...?

i'm guessing it's a bug?

did you try, smoothing, edit > delete history > smoothing again, to see if it works? or if that was what you did then i'm not sure either.

one thing you might want to check, is your tolerance for your split tool, maybe its attribute put up too high and that blocks you from clicking another point...so try lowering it down.

if not,...

when booleaning and doing those unions, you just have to make sure the two polygons go into each other with a good amount of distance. meaning two polygons should go into each other quite a lot to...

Ok I finally found out the answer to my question.

For those who ran into the same problem, to duplicate objects that have derform nodes such as clusters or lattices, and still keep their...

i could use instances, and they would work fine, but then what if i don't two clusters to move or affect their parented objects at the same time?

The reason why i wanted this is because I was...

maybe more info might help, a picture or so of your model and the problem.

otherwise i'm guessing some graphic card problem or just something in your maya scene is not right.

to convert polygons to subdiviions you must first have a good modeled surface or object. which means all of its faces should be in quads. then simply modify > convert > poly to subdivision > the max...