Thanks that was indeed the issue, I unlocked them, but added constraints instead to get what I needed, it worked!
All things accounted for.
Now… I’ve got a much different error after exporting animation.
If I export an animation, and then save it… it erases the .ma file. completely. and says “unable to save <path>”
-luckily- I back everything up enough so that’s not a problem but the first time it happened it caused a panicattack. does that have something to do with the same thing?
I’m running Maya 2015 SP1 - Student, by the way.
New UI looks great by the way, much more in the style of the actual face-lifted engine!