what's wrong with the lw fbx? i heard only positive feedback.
i have no trouble with the blender exporter. i am having trouble with blender in general. i'm not against the blender idea or open source (i'm usin linux right now), but skinning and animating in blender is somewhat difficult compared to c4d which i used before, and i am neither willing to get into a whole new program that changes every half of a year (i was able to skin an texture with blender 2.2, with 2.4 i'm not even getting to work the unwrap part) nor do i have the time to, as blender is not the most intuitive program for 3d character animation

. so the easiest would be to buy a new c4d version, but it's rather pricey and i searched for alternatives.
i found carrara which was "cheap enough", but the fbx is terrible and practically unusuable, so is their *.x exporter, so i'm possibly giving back my licenses.
ello tested the c4d fbx for me, and told me that it works now, so this is really great news. i'll probably go with c4d then, but i'll first have a look at lightwave.
but i have still an open ear for alternatives.