So, my hard drive crashed and I lost all of my stuff I was working on. Started over and chose the Black Widow. I have figured out how to successfully export to FS9. No gear, props, or animations yet, but this is what I have.
That's a great step forward (apart from the hard drive failure of course).
Now that you can see the aircraft in the simulator, I would have a play with the smoothing groups next. The light/dark areas are not quite right, the light areas under the boom and nose in particular.