Desperatly Need Help!

Helo! I'm making an animation where i must animate a set of NURBS CV curves. Ok until this point. However, I must apply a material to the NURBS CV surface which is the suface formed by the curves I'm animating. The problem is that the material I'm going to apply to the surface is different from the whole NURBS object, and 3Dsmax won't let me put different texture channels for the surface. Note: the surface i'm animating needs to be dependent to the whole object's surface - since is a surf surface. Please help! I'm desperate!!!

that is a bit of a situation there . . . I would reccomend starting the model over, keeping in mind where the materials need to go, and model it accordingly. Unfortunately, this type of thinking ahead is required . . . nurbs can be a tricky thing. If you can, please post a screenshot . . . maybe there is another solution.