ok
i made the whole thing first of a polygon box then converted it to subD and made almost the whole thing as a subdiv. when i was finished so my friend could take over i clicked export all>.obj and it saved both a mtl or something and .obj file... the suspicious thing was that it is 1kb and the .mb(maya binary) file is 22kb
when i sent it to him he couldn't get it to work...
he's not on msn so i can't ask him now what he did..