Thanks, I've read a lot of Nerd3D's tutorials but not that one.
edit: ah I see what I was missing (delete the jointx, jointy and twistz channels from the head, for each eye, as well as in the eyes themselves).  I see the tutorial has something about supplying a * but deleting the channels entirely seems to be the way nearly everyone does this.  Thanks, I'll remember that :)

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