So just to let you know where this is at,
Wiley fixed my broken HP and sent it back to me, so it would work ingame.
I really have no interest in scripting and HP's etc ( I just like making purdy ships ) so Dalek is excellently ripping the HP to pieces and has her almost finished up.. he has gone into so much detail on it im very happy I asked him to do it..
Currently we have an issue with the smoothing groups, they are applied in max and it looks great, as soon as the model is exported to ""ANY"" format.. in 2 areas of the ship the smoothing groups are lost??  they are fine in all other areas just these two.. when you re import it will not let you fix these smoothing groups. 
Before Dalek shows his excellent HP including new phasers and torps and such we would like to see this resolved, I have fiddeled with various versions of max and differnt methods of exporting to no resolution.. again the mesh is smooth and fine in max, but loses 2 x smoothing groups on exporting to any format including .nif etc
I believe Dalek is asking other modelers if they can help, but I just thought I should update you on this.