Animations Not Showing Up in Game

OK, I'll try to explain this correctly, its a little odd :)

I've made a player model to use for our game, complete with animations for the root and running, as well as other animations. For right now, I'm concentrating on getting the model into the game with minimal effort, so I made sure that the naming is identical to the Torque demo model and animations (player.dts, player_forward.dsq, player_root.dsq, etc.), with the hopes of it catching immediately in the game. And it work...partly. The idle animation I made for the 'root' works fine...but the animation I used for 'player_forward' in order to walk, won't trigger. The sequence name is the same, and all of my animations show up in the model viewer. The model physically moves forward, but won't perform the animation to walk.

Now this is the wierd thing. I haven't made any kind of 'jump' sequence, yet one of our team members changed the 'run' sequence name in the player.cs to 'jump'...and when the model jumps, it triggers the run animation! We tried using other sequence names that were used with the Torque model to get a similar effect(look, side, back), and the ones associated with walking would not work. Others would trigger an animation...

So far, we've concluded that the animations work fine themselves, and that the issue might be in how the game engine sees the model...? The skeletal structure of the biped in our model is different from the Torque model skeleton. While the Torque model has 3 sections for the spine, ours has 1. Other than the size of our model (Larger), there's no other difference. We were thinking that the engine sees our model structure as incorrect, and won't trigger the animations. I was hoping that someone could shed light on how Torque processes animations that deal with movement/walking, and possibly help out with a solution to this dillema.

Hope you can help!

Thanks