Whenever I try to structure my map (now, its worked plenty of times before) tool tells me I need to choose a shader type for all of my shaders in my map then gives me a list of the different types and does this for all the shaders.

So...what did I do wrong? :(

You did not create shaders before running the command, or you made shaders but named them improperly. Try not to stick a number at the end; this confuses tool as in 3ds max, when you put a number at the end of the material name, it uses the number as a permutation or something of that sort rather than part of the file name itself.

Found the issue I had to reenter the names in max (moving from Max 9 to 8 I lost some text), I had two letters out of place on two shaders.

Thanks grunt