What a nice script - That will make my life easier from this point on ;)

It works in standalone 1.55, but i 2.05 i get: "[string "-- helper to pop-up an error dialog..."]:15: bad argument #1 to 'open' (string expected, got boolean"

It's not a huge problem, since running the script on a mesh in 1 ...

Hair still doesn't seem to work. The only difference I can spot from v 2.03 is that there no longer seems to be an option to enable hair rendering. Am I missing something?

Have you set Hair and Fur effect to geometry type?
It should work in production render (render button or F9) in 3dsmax 2013 ...

Hair still doesn't seem to work. The only difference I can spot from v 2.03 is that there no longer seems to be an option to enable hair rendering. Am I missing something?

April? As in April 2014? That's amazingly mindblowing good news!

Nice work

+1