I recently needed to make some rope..I used quads because I couldn't exactly rap my head around how to do it in Moi..with poyl's I just extruded a cylinder copy and pasted 6 times in an array around the first then used the twist deformer...then the lightbulb went off with moi..draw out a helix then sweep with a circle profile, circle array count 8..cut in half done. I did this very quick so things aren't centered etc but hope it helps someone else out.

Michael - It would be nice to have the basic deformers like bend and twist..I know you said you going to put them in sometime..maybe V3?