Yup a coworker installed it and it was not 'plugged' somehow. He managed to manually edit the script to make it work - but he's on holidays this week. I'll sure ask him as soon as he is back. So yeah the tool works, it's not as convenient and integrated as Max's yet but it's a step in the right direction.
I got all exited when I found a version of Bonus Tools for 8.5 is meant to have preserve uvs. This could save me a tonne of time, but I can't get the thing to work.. The python script doesn't even seem to be there, but some people in the Autodesk download page's user comments seem to be having some luck. Anyone here had…