It's not a lie, it's not broken and they can't "fix" it.
Well, it's not strictly *true* - in a factual sense of the word, and plenty of other apps have been fixed/upgraded/whatever to achieve this effect. Anyway, that's as may be... I really don't want to waste time debating semantics! :)
As I mentioned above, I can't afford to spend more money on this problem at the moment - does anyone know of any free 3D format converters (.X -> .3DS / .B3D) that wont leave my model a pale shade of what it was supposed to be?
Cheers for the advice AlienForce, but I'm using gameSpace light which only saves in the .X format.
And John, your right - I do have no lights, but the ambient light is sufficient for a simple model viewer like this. Thanks all the same! :D