Thanks dude! Lost quite some sleep trying to get this done before a company would look at my portfolio today
And yeah, the shadows, you'll have to forgive them for being so rough: it's a really rudimentary system that i'm pushing beyond its limits actually. The new version of Max should have some big improvements there, I hope.
Anti-aliasing I still want to fix though, but that means going back to 2008 (AA is disabled by Autodesk in 2009) and thus having to redo all the scene and material settings.