The part about blending bone animation was a sort of an embarrassing blip. I mistakenly believed Gamestudio was not capable of this (I had earlier looked to change engines for this reason) Once I knew there was a command for animation blending I was able to change my project to utilize it in the span of a half hour.
I've been programming games since I was 7, and now I'm heading off to college. I am very good at coming up with solutions for things on my own, which is why I don't post asking for help often. (I used to use a different forum account, so my registry date and # of posts are misleading)
I have to say $30 is quite reasonable. Besides, I end up costing not as much because I work FAST. I can do many things in shorter amounts of time than most would estimate, resulting in fewer hours billed.