Engine Based Animations Not Working In Game

I'm having a bit of trouble successfully getting an animating player incorporated in the game using the stock run/walk animation slots. The animations load fine in the show tool and to my knowledge are named appropriately, but the player doesn't animate when running, walking, etc. The idle animation works in game, but the run/walk animations do not, even though the naming convention I used for the two were identical. When the player moves, they slide along the terrain using the idle animation.

There was a forum post that described a similar problem relating to the blue guy which stated that all 8 beginning animations (root, run, back, side, fall, land, jump, jumpStand) are required. Can anyone confirm or deny this?

I read the documentation for maya2dts again but it seems to cut short after simplebox is viewable in the show tool, and doesn't make any attempt to connect the animation sequences with the built in engine sequences. I'm sure there are people out there in TDN land who have gotten this to work and frankly, I'm stumped.

Here's the portion of the cs file I'm using as an example:

datablock TSShapeConstructor(GorillaDts)
{
baseShape = "~/data/shapes/gorilla/gorilla.dts";
sequence0 = "~/data/shapes/gorilla/gorillaFinal_idle.dsq root";
sequence1 = "~/data/shapes/gorilla/gorillaFinal_run.dsq run";
sequence2 = "~/data/shapes/gorilla/gorillaFinal_pickUp.dsq pickUp";
sequence3 = "~/data/shapes/gorilla/gorillaFinal_throw.dsq throw";
};

I noted that whatever was the first animation listed (sequence0) was defaulted as the idle animation in game.

Anyone else had problems with characters animating in the showtool or have any thoughts? How exactly are the default animations linked in?