Converting Models

Can anyone, please direct me to a 3DS Max 6 or 7 Tutorial with Skeleton and Motion Building, and also to a good tutorial on how to export to a good .dts format... even when I used to try and export stuff that was already READY to export I got retarded errors such as no bounding box, so I make one, then other ones...

I'm a pretty serious developer and working hard on my game. I wanna have a beta ready soon but I lack in the area of modeling exporting, so if anyone could PLEASE just direct me to a tutorial.

Thx
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