Well I remade ALL the bones in the neck, and they automatically had ZYX joint order, and behaved much better. Several sections are still only affecting their parent, but at least it looks a lot better. Hopefully I'll be able to straighten out all the kinks (pun intended ;P ) eventually. Thanks for y'all's patience with me and my dragon...I'm not giving up on it. It's based on a character of mine - Seraphina, my dragoness alter ego, and I'd like to see her in a 3D environment. Besides the little test renders I did with the static version in Bryce. Besides being a favored character, she's been my "first" for a lot of things. UV mapping, polygon modeling, jointing, etc. I've been posting pics of my misadventures with her in my gallery, if any of y'all want to laugh some more at my lack of skill ;)