Thanks, Vlad!

OK. We're half way there. When I reset the env file the bonus tool menu did appear and the tools within the menu worked too. The bad news is that my custom menus that I mentioned before disappeared.

Apparently, if the env file doesn't specify a path then the default script path is used. This would have to be C:\program files\alias\maya7.0\ scripts .... So, if I customize the script path in the env file:

MAYA_SCRIPT_PATH=C:\CharacterTools\scripts
XBMLANGPATH=C:\CharacterTools\icons

then Maya will look in the specified script location. I assume that IF Maya finds a UserSetup file in the specified script location then it will run it. As I said before, my UserSetup file is giving Maya instructions for setting up custom menus for me.

As things stand right now, I can either load the bonus tools or I can load my custom menus...... I would like to be able to do both but I don't know enough about this kind of thing to make it happen.

I can snap some pictures of my directories if that will help anyone who might understand this problem.

Some of those bonus tools look pretty good or else I wouldn't even bother.

Any Ideas? Vlad? anybody?