I can't get this parent constraint working on my character. It needs to pick up something from the floor. So I select the character's hand, then the object and apply a Constrain > parent (I reset the options first).
But every time I apply the constrain, the object moves from its position. It looks like it tries to align itself to the new parent, the hand.
Maintain Offset is checked. What am I doing wrong here ?!?

I just stumbled onto this problem while finnishing up my animation for the march/april challange. Crap!!