That is ok, Jonah. Thanks for helping.
I think this is problem is interesting in all it's simplicity. Just a cube that one guy is able to get working and the other guy not. Also is interesting that a mid-level app like Carrara has a working solution but there seems to be no solution in a fairly top-level app like Modo.
Here is a seemingly similar case with Silo to Maya:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=253668
I could not make much of that information tho.