Do you have Maya Bonus Tools loaded? That is where you get it. I thought I had mentioned that. But since you have moved on, then good luck and fun with it.

I have tried using Version 8 and had a problem of when using the orient between local and world with extract it always jumped to the middle of the grid. Sort of 0,0,0 location and not on what I have selected. So I have went back to 7. And any files I had opened and saved with 8, won't open now in 7. That was a drag.