Need help with bone system (PLEASE)

[Pyrro]

Okay, im trying to make a simple robotic arm that will pick up a barrel of oil move it and set it back down. I have 3 arms on the robot. I'm using a splineIKsolver bone system, assign to root and child. when I select and link all 3 arms of the robot, I am able to rotate the top arm and effects all of the arms, but when i move down to the second i rotate it and it has no effect on the last arm.
Can any one help me? PLEASE?!?!?! I really want to master this.
if you need screen shots, i'll give them to you, if you need the max file im working with i'll hand it over. Any help I get will be VERY appreciated

[minimus]

aaarrggg....i hate rigging ^^
i dont know how, but i recomend you post up somescreen shots...becaus it's a bit hard to understand what you mean by words :)

maybe some one understand the problem if you do that.
good luck solving this.

btw: If you really want to learn rigging good, i recomend you buy the rigging dvd's on cg academy:) they are awsom.

[Pyrro]

Okay, i'll check it out. Thanks!