i've been trying for WEEKS now to get one single you'd-think-that'd-be-simple-enough-item running, to as good as no avail:
which would be: having an activator putting the player into a pickaxe furniture (non-default scripts)...

my current setup:
1 activator (currently actually a vanilla mineore-acti, just with an other nif assigned),
1 mining furniture marker, which is linked ref to the activator.

the current scripts (stripped down to what's relevant here)

on the activator:

Actor			   		Property	PlayerRef			   AutoFormList		   	  Property	MineOreToolsList	AutoObjectReference	Property	MarkerPickaxe		Auto	HiddenEvent OnLoad ()	MarkerPickaxe = ( GetLinkedRef () as ObjectReference )endEventEvent onActivate (ObjectReference akActivator)	if ( ( akActivator == PlayerRef ) && ( PlayerRef.GetItemCount (MineOreToolsList) &--#62; 0 ) )		MarkerPickaxe.Activate (PlayerRef)	endifendEvent

on the mining furniture:

Actor			   		 Property	 PlayerRef	 AutoObjectReference	 Property	 SelfRef		 Auto	 HiddenEvent OnLoad ()	BlockActivation (true)	SelfRef = Self as ObjectReferenceendEventEvent OnActivate ( ObjectReference akActionRef )	if ( akActionRef == PlayerRef )   	 if ( IsFurnitureInUse () == false )			SelfRef.Activate (PlayerRef)   	 endif	endifendEvent

why ON EARTH won't this go...!?
the thing is, the furniture doesn't even NOTICE it's getting activated (notification directly after furniture's "if (akActionRef..." doesn't fire, notification at end of activators activate-block does)
and even more weird, i had another version with a primitive as activator, where the furniture DID get the activation, which was i think pretty much the same code (had to dump that though because primitive didn't react to the OnHit later in the script. and it always kept restarting the ani instead of playing it, but that's an issue i can care about if i ever even COME THIS FAR again...

pleeease any clues anybody? me = SO out of...
(and what's worse, that's for a requested mod... "hey sorry man, took weeks longer than i said cuz i couldn't make'm bloody pickaxe...." =|