3ds max?

Hi guys! I want to thank you all for helping out previously, I forgot sorry! But now me and my crew have a little/big problem. We have a couple of nice .3ds models and we want to use them,, kinetix will not give use the specs for .3ds. Do any f you guys use .3ds ,, and then how.. I know that I can convert it to an x file. But I''ve heard that lots of data is getting lost in the conversion. And I also know that there is a ASCII format .ase but Acctually it seem to suck. So well it''s kind of a big problem... anyone? Throw me a freaking bone here! ______________________________ ohh well what the heck lets try it?