First off, this is a great website!! I enjoy it a lot. Thanks!!
Thanks in advance for helping!
I finished my first humanoid model the other day in Maya. It was great fun and challenging learning by myself!! Afterwards with my model all converted to Polygons, like the tutorial I tried to "convert to subdivs", but it said it couldn't do it. Says process failed! See script editor.

Well I don't know if this is Scrip Editor or not. I looked on the Output window and this is what it said:
mental ray for Maya 7.0
mental ray: version 3.4.5.2, 06 July 2005
Hardware Renderer : vendor(NVIDIA Corporation), renderer(GeForce 7300 GT/PCI/SSE2), version(2.0.3)
fragment API(NVIDIA Cg)
vertex API(Cg vertex programs)
Cg fragment profile(fp30), vertex profile(arbvp1)

Is this related? A clue?

I was really looking forward to the nice "smooth finish" of subdivs.

-James