Oh nice Blaze! I may be able to help. If you don't mind me asking, what exactly did you duplicate in the character creation level to get the character to appear and count as players? Was it only the startpoints and character models? If so, I think we definitely need to duplicate a couple more things in the character creation level.
Did you duplicate the Camera_Creation triggers? I believe those triggers are what hold the characters in place. As far as the menus, I'm wondering if we need to duplicate the decals that appear next to the characters, DCL_Caustics_A.
Also if you want to preview how something will look when you run character creation, right click the Camera_Creation_Main trigger found in the level and click "activate".
As far as the items go, I can't help in any way there because I haven't delved into anything to do with items yet, however, I've re-extracted everything and will try to get past my saving issue to help you out any way I can.
Let me know if you have any other breakthroughs and I'll do the same.
