Just post pictures of what you have and I can suggest setting changes, I generally don't have to see the setup to know how it need to be changed unless you have a wierd light setup.
That will change with 3.0, of course, I need to start learning that and find a free compiler so I can try my hand at making the bricks.

I went and finished the whole business..  poor husband has been ignored since he got home, but he'll live.  I couldn't get the cool metalic look in d|s 'cause that's from the doubled specular.. I may make HSS mats that do that next week but it'll do as is.  (I really don't like making freebies that require plug ins, especially stuff like this where it's a stand alone prop, you could stick these on almost any human figure if you wanted to play with scaling and magnets.

Hopefully it'll all work, I'll have it packaged up in a few minutes.