TalmidBen, your policy is strangely appropriate for MilkShape, which actually has no manual. The MilkShape forum makes an adequate substitute, however. Check it out the next time you visit the website.

judith, we have a Rhino forum here at Renderosity. It might help.

I've done some preliminary UV-mapping, and finished the initial texture and bump map for the medal. Here it is, rendered in Poser.