Thanks monster. That looks like that will be the best. Its weird one of the legs I was able to reflect with the meshed object under the dummy with the bones and keep the skin. The other leg skin mesh messed up though. I tried reloading a saved skin envelope reference with effect. It also would do "funky" things if I tried…
Huh, I thought max's mirror command would also mirror IK properly. At least it used to have an option for that. Cool trick monster. Better than time-shitting.
I think the IK is messing up because again, they are linked separately to a different dummy object already (the long rectangular tube in the pic). (I need the legs to grasp and lift as if they were picking up a bar).