sorry for bumping, but the same file has become corrupted again.
i was trying to clean up the structure of the faces and such, but i had to save and quit while i still had some rather questionable faces left (some faces having 6 sides), so when i tried to open the file it got the usuall "error reading file" message that i got last time, so i went in the .3ds file with wordpad and deleted the messed up faces.
now, however, i get a new error along the lines of "missing matierials supplied for object", then it says that the "file contains unnamed matierials, generating default names". after that "Anim8tor expieriences a problem and needs to close."
i have not seen anything like this so far, and i have no clue where to begin to fix it.
here is the file if anyone cares to look at it; the first one[RAH-66 (remodel)] being the the latest error with matierials and the second [RAH-66 (remodel with face issues)]being the one that only has face issues.