Problem with UV wrapping

Well, i was trying to make a troll batrider that could use creep troll skins for the rider. I cut out the rider and edited his UV wrap to fit Troll Berserker skin, which is basically a recolored creep troll, then did the same in another version, only deleting the rider instead of the bat. I then geomerged the rewrapped rider to the bat. I looked it over in veiwer, then used animation transfer to give it normal batrider anims. But it didn't work. So i have two questions.
A- Can you animate geomerged parts
B- Can you split the UV wrapping for a geoset into two skins.

The only problem with my UV wrap was the eyes, which are visibly out of place.
And any other potential solutions would help.
A pic of the batless rider:

A. Yes. Post more specifically what you want and I can probably help you. It can be tedious.
B. No. You have to make them use different textures.

What you might want to do is...
- Duplicate the geoset that has the rider in it. (Two identical copies now.)
- In one of them delete the bat.
- In the other, delete the rider.
- Change the materials around so the rider geoset uses the new texture you want.

Thanks SO much.
BUT how do i duplicate the geoset without geomerging..? :(

Just use geoset merging. You can then just copy and paste the matries and VertexGroups from the original to the new so that they're exact duplicates.

ok, thanks!
is there a quicker way than writing down the matrices then using add matrix? otherwise, this will take a long time...
*punches self* no duh, cnp in notepad!