you hit the nail on the head there Viking - the BAS LB p3d's have been binarized for 3 reasons:
1. The p3d is smaller in size as odol (instead of mlod)
2. Version compatability, when binarized the p3d's are compatible with all versions of ofp.
3. To stop people doing what you're trying to do NavySeal, as you can appreciate, we have spent a hell of a lot of time and effort working on the LB's at BAS, and the only people we want making changes to these models are the people at BAS, we dont want people opening the model, swapping some weapons around, and claiming the models for themselves...
Now we wont go into the whole "He/She stole my addon" argument again, so topic closed...