I deleted the meshes that are there for the paintshop, but that's all I did. Took a little longer to convert but didn't give any errors.
As for COD2 viewhands, they don't really export very well for me. Is there a better program out there for that? Only one I found was from 2009. Or I guess is there one included with the mod tools? only saw british africa body in maya folder.
Problem with that topic is I'm going the opposite way. COD2 to COD4/5.
I messaged Tom and he says he is going to update the tanim plugin soon and will look at the COD2 animations at the same time. So guess I'll wait for that and see.