Hi, kayarnad. Sorry, I might have confused the issue a bit by citing the animation usage.

Magnets do pull at meshs, but a depression can be looked at as a pull, but in the same direction of travel as the force doing the pushing, if you catch my drift. Uh, okay maybe that doesn't help. :-P But maybe this will:

I made a mistake in my earlier message. I said that you should parent the magnet to the prop but you should actually parent the magnet zone to the prop.

nukem