More Melee Help

has anyone succeeded in porting melee into T3D? I have been attempting to port server side melee into beta 5, i have everything apparently working all the engine changes compile without errors and am no longer getting any errors in the scripts, but when the sword is mounted to the player and i attempt to fire i get the error in setarmplayonce() in the console which is being triggered from this code in weapon.cs

switch$($action)
    {
       //case "JumpAttack":
          //%attack = %this.jumpAttack;
       case "Normal":
          // for now we randomly choose an attack
          %index = mFloor(getRandom()*(%this.hthNumAttacks-0.0001));
          if (%index > (%this.hthNumAttacks-1))
             %index = (%this.hthNumAttacks-1);
          %attack = %this.hthAttack[%index];
    }
    // setup the "play once look anim"
    %obj.hthDamageAttack = %attack;
    %obj.hthDamageSeqPlaying = 1;
    %obj.hthDamageStartMS =  $sim::Time;
    %obj.hthDamageLastId = -1;

    if (!%obj.setArmPlayOnce(%attack.seqName))
       echo("ERROR in setArmPlayOnce()");
    return;
}

I do not understand why it is triggering the echo. All animation dsqs have been added to the animation folder and executed in the player datablock. anyone have any ideas?