Correct it is a skill issue. I'm just started using Blender and I don't know how to use it and haven't found any tutorials on my specific issue.
However, it is a model that's been touched up from a game, so I no longer plan on using the model as an avatar in SL but would still like to find someone to rig it so that it could work in SL just so I could see how everything looks when it's correct, as a learning tool to try and learn backwards from.