A quick update: Well, it looks like I’ve managed to almost solve the issue which I listed previously.
Here’s some screenshots of things sort of almost rendering correctly.

and one more showing the detail of one of Cubey’s planes (in this case his Ornithopter - and it renders correctly!)

Will post more screenshots later once I have completely fixed that issue.
[...] are some screen shots from Adam’s blog “of things sort of almost rendering [...]
UgoTrade » Blog Archive » Xenki: An “In Your Browser Viewer” for OpenSim and Second life
8 Aug 08 at 2:47 am