Milkshape is changed a lot since lesson 31 came out.. when do we get a revamped lesson on how to import both the milkshape binary and ASCII formats ? I would find them immeasurably useful, but perhaps everyone else is already moved on. Who knows.

You might be on to something there.
Milkshape might be ok for simple stuff, but compared to software like maya and lightwave, milkshape just doesn't cut it.
And besides, for most binary formats it's a pretty simple task to make an importer (except for maya that is).

The bottom line is.
No, i don't think there will be an rewamped milkshape lesson anytime soon.

Sounds good, how about a Maya import tutorial ?

Look at http://rsn.gamedev.net/, I made my importer with it and with the help of milkshape SDK.

Really easy in fact, and very instructive. it gave me idea for creating my own fileformat.