Enough is enough

After playing a bit with own rig I ditched it and went back to the one I was using before, since mine wasn't really all that good. Then in my frustration to the fact that nothing worked I put up a forum post on 3d total to see if someone could help me out.

"Me: Greeting I have question I hope one of you can help me with. How do you animate a link in 3Ds Max 9?

As in if I want to move a ball from one hand to the other. I found one way of doing this but the first object I linked it to kept affecting it even when the next object where supposed to have taken over control.

Made a crude video to try and show my problem and try to give the impression of what I am trying to achieve.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEH_C1ZMoUY

If someone can help me out I would be extremely grateful.

Nice guy: The best option for this kind of animation is the POSITION CONSTRAINT and not the LINK CONSTRAINT.
Because you can animate the weight of the link.
Tip: Use three dummys to link the sphere. 2 dummys in each hands (direct link) and one for free moves."

Couldn't figure out how to use the dummies like he told me to but I finally found a way to do it using replicas of the sphere I was lifting

I still had problems making it look good since this rig is hard to use but I ended up using page 267 of "The Animators Survival Kit" as reference, and this is what I will use as my final result.