However, I've had blender crash a lot, 3 times today. It's probably do do with my experimenting with all sorts of stuff, but it's still annoying - particularly since I lost 45 mins of work the first time (On an hour long lunch break, bah).
I'm yet to get a mesh I made from scratch properly exported, and I'd like to find out how to do multitexturing in Blender too - although then I'll have to use a different format to export to, since MD2 only has one set of texture coordinates.
Still doing the Alpha build at work, due to me fucking up again, and some other code being bust. I'm tired.
I actually got the Blender book about five years ago so I could figure out how to use it and it ended up surprising me. Once you learn all the ins-and-outs of the program it ends up being very usable.