Spline manipulation question...

I've been trying to figure this out for the past two days (somewhere around 20 hours collectively... but I taught myself some other stuff along the way) anyway.... I want to make a line, then assign individual motion controllers to all of the vertices. Is there some way to do this with max scripting... or possibly something less complicated? I'm kind of a newb, but I'm only 16 so I hope can get a little leniency   :-[

I'm using 3ds max 4 and if you're curious, it's for the model in this topic:
http://www.raph.com/3dartists/cgibin/forums/YaBB.cgi?board=post_3d_art;action=display;num=1057718713

Thanks in advance,

Paul

Yap Chun Fei - "we could just insert bones into the tube and assign a skin modifier once done we could manually select which vertices reach to which particular bone . hope it helps :) cheers !"