Line pick woes

Can anybody tell me if line pick works with a loaded anim mesh or no? I have my level loaded in as an animesh because giles light import system demands it. Line pick goes dead.
However if I load the mesh in as a standard mesh then linepick works 100 percent but then giles light importing will not work. It took me all night to finally try and load my level as a mesh to see if that was the problem - first I tried pivots, dummy objects you name it.
Can any body tell me how to pick an anim mesh succesfully please? It would save me an unneccesary work around!

Never mind - I made my workaround. Anybody else having problems with Giles animesh and using line pick, do this:

Parse the giles file and let it create the lights as normal.
Then inside your createlights /flares/ whatever function in your main game BB file - right after you've made your lights put this code :

lx#=EntityX (Gilelights\Glight,level)
ly#=EntityY (Gilelights\Glight,level)
lz#=EntityZ (Gilelights\Glight,level)
rlx#=EntityPitch(Gilelights\Glight)
rly#=EntityYaw(Gilelights\Glight)
rlz#=EntityRoll(Gilelights\Glight)
lr#= light\far#/1.3
lrc#= light\r#
lgc#= light\g#
lbc#= light\b#


nulight=CreateLight(2)
PositionEntity nulight,lx#,ly#,lz#
LightRange nulight,lr#
LightColor nulight,lrc#,lgc#,lbc#
FreeEntity (Gilelights\Glight)


then right at the end of the fucntion put this:

FreeEntity level ; note-whatever your level var
level=LoadMesh("E:\blitz3d\mystuff\YOURLEVEL.b3d")

It works so far anyhow :)
linepick will then work with your mesh loaded level file no problems - useful for altering your gravity settings etc..
Hope that's easy enough to follow!

You could always apply the pickmode to all the sub-children using my multipurpose NextChild() function from here:
http://www.blitzbasic.com/codearcs/codearcs.php?code=796
Like this (untested):

level = LoadAnimMesh("E:\blitz3d\mystuff\YOURLEVEL.b3d") 

ent = level
While ent
	If EntityClass(ent)="Mesh" EntityPickMode ent,2
	ent = NextChild(ent)
Wend


Function NextChild(ent)
	If CountChildren(ent)>0
		Return GetChild(ent,1)
	EndIf

	Local foundunused=False
	Local foundent = 0, parent,sibling
	While foundunused=False And ent<>0
		parent = GetParent(ent)
		If parent<>0
			If CountChildren(parent)>1
				If GetChild(parent,CountChildren(parent))<>ent
					For siblingcnt = 1 To CountChildren(parent)
						sibling = GetChild(parent,siblingcnt)
						If sibling=ent
							foundunused = True
							foundent = GetChild(parent,siblingcnt+1)
						EndIf
					Next
				EndIf
			EndIf
		EndIf
		ent = parent
	Wend
	Return foundent
End Function

Thanks Beaker - I'll try that code..however I tried pickmode laboriously with all ten 'level' children and none of them worked!