Wow! That tutorial was great, Desdemomonna! Here's the new render, her nails look much more like I wanted them to now. Thanks!

In answer to jay's question: I didn't. I couldn't fix the nails themselves. So I took my gothic claws and turned 'off' everything but the left hand claw section (including the bands that sit around the tips of the fingers). Then I scaled each of the claws and bent/twisted/side-to-sided them until they were coming out roughly where the nails would be on her hand. I stripped all material off them and played around with transparancy (and now followed the tutorial Desdemmonna gave me) until they looked like I wanted.

Thanks again everyone!