I used a script from www.youneedthisman.com called biped factory to make the initial skeleton. It basically did all the work of creating/labelling the bones and FBIK character =)

Binding wasn't too bad since mostly I used rigid binds...but I made a big big mistake of instancing instead of duplicating the other half of the body. Totally screwed up the bindings, since all instances get bound to the same bone :angery: