Weapons - Gun problem

Hi,

I created a gun I'd like to test in my game. I'm having a few problems though. I have the gun with the three joints, mountPoint, muzzlePoint and ejectPoint. Here's what's happening:

1) If I export my model (DTS Plus from Milkshape) as is, only the handle of the gun shows up if I run some code that drops it at my position in the game.

2) If I regroup all the parts of the model into one part, then export, I get the full model, but only one texture over the whole thing. I'm not using a skin, just a few different textures in Milkshape on each part. Maybe this won't work? But regardless, do you have to have your weapon/item be only ONE group? That makes future editing incredibly difficult.

3) I copied another weapon's .CS file, changed everything to match my new weapon (DTS file, WAV files, etc) and still if I run into it (either the handle from part 1 or the one-textured model from part two) I just bump it away from me in the game world. Maybe my problem is the way I'm creating the object in the game world - I have a script I'm executing from the console as follows:

datablock ItemData(TestShape)
// ----------------------------------------------------
// Definition of the shape object
// ----------------------------------------------------
{
// Basic Item properties
category = "Weapon";
className = "Weapon";
shapeFile = "~/data/models/weapons/laserpistol.dts";
mass = 1; //we give the shape mass and
elasticity = 0.2;
friction = 1; // friction to stop the item from sliding
// down hills
emap = true;
pickUpName = "A LaserPistol";
image = LaserPistolImage;
};

function InsertTestShape()
// ----------------------------------------------------
// Instantiates the test shape, then inserts it
// into the game world roughly in front of the
// the player's default spawn location.
// ----------------------------------------------------
{
// An example function which creates a new TestShape object
%shape = new Item() {
datablock = TestShape;
rotation = "0 0 1 2.07104"; // initialize the values
// to something meaningful
};
MissionCleanup.add(%shape);

// Player setup
%shape.setTransform("0.0566379 -1.05615 200.016 0 0 1 2.07104");
echo("Inserting Shape " @ %shape);
return %shape;
}

This is set up to drop the weapon model right at my starting location.

Glez