You know whats cool about Simplymaya.com? THey actually DO respond back to 95% of all questions in that forum! I also had problems making hair when i tried with a fur shader, but if your talking just hair with transparent maps and stuff.. then you should ask there and they will give you help.
If you live in surrey then you live 15-30 minutes away from me max. Heh, cool stuff .
Now lets all sing! Its a small small world blah blah blah blah blah! etc etc.