oh i am having same trouble, could u plz explain wit a bit more detail of wat u did.
and ya i'm new to maya too and i just finished the dog it looks very nice.(to me lol)

anyways i do not know ur moral values and i'm not sure if its legal or not legal to tell u that u could get a crack for maya (which is not too hard to figure out) so u could just get it for free..
u didn't hear it from me