I've figgured out a workaround for now, but the basic idea is I made a base head and devided up the 3 key areas into seprate .blend files, in those files I modified the meshes leaving the external verticies locked in place. when I want to export a new head, I import the meshes togeather and merge the connected verticies givng me options for new heads, however this breaks shape keys and causes vertexis to go crazy.

so what I do is export the flexes as VTA's before I stich the meshes togeather, when I import them, they match up to the vertexes that are still there and work fine.

again, this is the absolute best way I can discribe this situation as I amd really, REALLY awful at descriptions.

I'm really sorry but I'm awful explaneing things, I assume you are trying to say there is no way of doing this?

Because the faces are not compleatly identicle, I have 3 mouths, 3 stes of eyes and 2 noses that I have made to mix and match on the fly. I know it sounds complicated but at this point I'm locked into this unless I want to start from scratch.

I know a few other modelers who have released source files where eacy flex is an individual vta, but I also think they used #DS Max wich I am no good at useing (and I alos don't own it).

I've built a handful of models that I want to compile them with mix and match flexes and exporting all the the shape keys individually from the one model I did would save me countless hours of work. Is there an option I'm not seeing to do this?

http://i.imgur.com/jdNBbKj.png

No matter what I do the button stays grayed out. this only happened after I just updated not 20 mins ago. I don't want to have to revert to an old version, but I need to get this work done. Any ideas?