I do believe I found it, I started moving folders from my version of CMA to the one you have Kathy. I tried moving all the files in my type1 armor folder and nothing, however when I moved "art\meshes\characters\good_a_heroes\farmboy" everything clicked. So leaving all the changes we put in so far replace contents of your farmboy mesh folder with the contents of this zip file and let me know what happens.
http://siegetheday.org/~bare_elf/ktest/mesh.zip
if this does not fix it I know what will...I think