I am using lightwave 9.3, and the fbx exporter from
http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/Manual/HOWTO-importObjectLightwave.html,
And when I go to the utilities tab, and add plugins, and select the fbxlw.p it simply won’t load.
The old exporter only works with up to LW 9.2 because they rewrote the plugin system. Unless Autodesk updates the FBX exporter or someone else comes up with one it LW users are probably out of luck. I switched to Cheetah3D because of this, it’s cheap and it just works better with Unity.
Oh no. I keep throwing money at 3D apps that go away 
Hopefully Alias will catch up to the latest LW. Until then, I’m sticking to LW 8, whether universal or not.
the fbx exporter seems to work ok for me with lightwave 9.3 if I’m using the ppc version. I havent tried it with the Universal Binary version.
PS This is my first ever post here on these forums so hiya!