markyd... check ur inbox... you got a present

(you might want to rename the mod file)
btw I couldn't open ur max file so i had to open the mod file. so while i was fixing the lightmaps (don't know what the problem was...worked fine over here) i also went ahead and detatched the smoothing groups so the mod file would stay smooth when exported

. my only suggestion may be to increase the overall brighteness of the illum map in photoshop using curves