Ive downloaded Gmax and want to make some saberhilts to import into Academy, but cant get the tutorials in Gmax to work, prehaps they need a seperate download. Anyway, I would just like to know if anyone can point me to tutorials to make the hilt model, putting a skin on it, and importing it to Academy?

In the general editing forum there is the <JA lightsaber?> thread that is exactliy about that. there is also this link to psynex saber tutorial for JA.
http://psynex-land.com/saber%20tutorial/Custom%20JA%20Sabers.html)

Please note that I need to make some changes to that tutorial. I've talked to a programmer from raven that helped me rid of a headache that needs to be addressed. The tools that I used in the tutorial work, but cause some problems with saber blade alignment/orientation. I'm hoping they'll release the updated version of MD3View.exe to the community soon. As soon as they do I will make the necessary adjustments.