Exporting Problem - Drops Keyframes

#1 I had this problem last quarter for my final project getting my spider to export correctly

there was one point where my teacher (Member:Kevin McMurphy) helped me along

I beleive though with your problem is you have Numbers on the ends of the bones, and the DTS Exporter is trying to link those to the detail node, witch it doesn't like

try renaming all the bones with numbers on the ends to something whithout numbers and try it again

i'm not 100% sure if the "Bip 01 name here" is contemporary you might need to change them all entirely to something like
Bip_L_Fingera
Bip_L_Fingerb
Bip_L_Fingerc
Bip_L_Fingerd

To my popular beleif, anything you try to export if it has a number on the end (minus mount points and such) it tries to associate that item with the detail

hope this helps, try just renaming the ends first then if that doesn't work take a shot at the example i provided up above

Also i see in yoru schematicview your only detail is a detail32 i'm not sure if this is correct or not i've personally always gone with detail2 and then done lod's down, but then again i'm not an expert on detail levels and haven't played with them as much as i could have. don't know if this is a practical practice is all i'm saying.

one other thing i'm noticing about it is you don't have a Start01, you could be trying to substitute it with Bip01 i'm not sure(hence i'm a studnet) the lack of unlink linked to eye and cam also. but then again i don't know your situation and what role it is if it's a npc or player character.

just for the shoutout and possible publicity here is a link to my animation (my FRAPS i posted up on youtube)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5iDIU21vgI

Here is a schematic view of my successful character (although it's an arachnid)
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/4606/forumpostthreadej6.jpg

#2 Ok, The thing I noticed first was that you've named the end dummies on the limbs 'Bip L Finger0Nub'
While this will work, it's easier to name them 'dummy*' with * being a number, and then in the cfg file just putting "dummy*" without quotes in the never export and it'll handle all those for you.

Secondly, Your rig naming convention is correct in this case. While Brent is right that it's generally a good practice to avoid numbers at the end of anything you dont want exported as a mesh, you're using the 3ds max's biped rig, which makes that not a real problem so long as it's configured right.

Now, the problem is, my guess, that you're not expressly animating down from the elbows.
Lets say that your animation has the guy wave his arm. You animate the shoulder and the like, and just leave therest of the arm alone since it looks ok in max. However, Torque's exporter is retardedly finicky about what to export sometimes, and one of those is 'if it's not animated' it doesnt export in the animation.

To fix this, you'd want to apply an ever-so-subtle rotation or something to the hand or something, and it'll decide to export that and the bones between it as well.
This is only a real problem when you animate something low on the chain(like the shoulder) but not something higher(like the hands)
It's a pain, but you get used to it.

See if this helps with the problem.