weapon attachment via items problem

Hi, I made weapon/shield items with orb abilities and changed the path of the mdl to use the weapons or shields. But I cannot get it to work correctly. I use a grunt model as my main hero and he attacks with his left hand, no matter what I write in the ability, ("hand left", "hand right"), it always ends up in right hand. The helmets do work when I set them to head, but I cannot get the weapons to work. Please help, what am I doing wrong?

I tried this, and used hand left, and it appeared at the level of the unit's feet though at the position of his left hand...

Anyway, I know it works on normal special effects, the items screw up the attachment points some how.

Esoteric, I'm grateful, thanx :D :D :D