bone translation?

is there a tool that can transfer bones form one model to another? or, is there an easy way to do this?

If u want to transfer the animations try here http://www.oinkerwinkle.com/tools/download.html

thats good and all, was going to use it eventually... but i need the bones first. the animation transfer will only work if the model has the bones. i made a custom model, i just want to transfer the bones from an existing one. im not good at bones yet.

I don't think such a program exist. Expecially since bones must be linked to the meshes :\

If you got 3ds max 5 you can use that to transfer the bones then the editing tools to fix the animations afterwards.

is 5 the only one that will work?

any 3dsmax will work, but i recommend 6-7 if you wish to add the bones without skinning the mesh, else use max 4.2 or max 5.