Well I appreciate you not bashing my choice to use the Mac, as well. =)

So the latest is that I did finally find the Render file that needs to be used but still waiting on my friend for the final steps of this process.

Applications/Autodesk/maya2008/Maya.app/Contents/bin/Render

Apparently you only need to have the file as an alias on your desktop and then drag and drop into the terminal shell when you set up the command line. Being completely new to any sort of coding I'm clueless how to finish this up and so have to wait patiently.

Once I have the final steps I'll post on here the entire process in case anyone else has this problem and needs to know.

Thanks again for all your help!