Nice 1 - great discription of the gui and hotkeys. There are a bunch of cool scripts from the community - take a look into Materialbaker and PixolNormalMapper (for worldtextures).
That's funny, all the parameters for the "mentalrayGlobals" attribut disappeared in maya 2008.... ................... really funny ................... my old script doesn't work anymore >_<
there is also "institute.js" that is the countdown script..everyone is thinking that it points to the Commonwealth...Fallout Boston....wooohoo...my body is ready