I'm having some very frusterating problems with 3DS Max right now, and I'm sure there's some incredibley easy solution to this, so maybe you people can help me

. I imported this file from Inventor into Max
http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/rdognaux@...src=ph&.view=t
Once I got it into Max, I cannot rotate while the Animate button is clicked on... for some reason it just wants to rotate each individual part on the Z axis, when I really want to rotate the entire thing together as 1 part. Basically, I want to know how to make it one complete part in Max. Thanks - Ryan