TV was boring so i gave your mesh a try.

Here is the converted mesh: http://www.noeska.com/downloads/test.zip

In the load3dsfromstream the mesh is 'optimized' for shadowing. Disabling the connectivity of faces part allowed the mesh to be saved. The result is quite large though. an 18mb milkshape ascii file.

I also had to disable loading textures as i did not have the right texture.