exporting a dsq of adampack

Hello , newbie here , i have the adampack model loaded into max . it already has a couple of keyframes of animation on it that takes it from a holding a weapon pose to the standard ready pose . I can export the shape as a dts and its fine . i cannot however seem to export a dsq that works. the file is created seems like it has exported , but when loaded into show tools pro ( still demo version , is that the problem ?) nothing actually loads . all the proper files are in the proper directory . I can load a ready made dsq. file and thats works but none of the ones i make will work. Ive tried animating his arm in max but still that does not show up in the dsq file .
what am i missing ?