Still alive and look in occasionally. Been helping others more than doing it myself lately. Unfortunately, Luke is still around 30% done. I was trying to go 3DS Max for my modeling to support both FSX and P3D but my 3DS Max9 doesn't work with Win 7, so I fell out of practice and have just recently installed 3DS Max 2012. My Global Mapper is out of date as well and doesn't support the JPEG 2000's the USGS is putting out for all the most recent stuff. Slowly but surely...Thanks for the concern and kind words.
Jim