I just posted a new version of my parse object at

http://www.timara.oberlin.edu/~gnelson/maxdownloads/downloadmax.htm

This version is written entirely with intrinsic max objects and should work
in all versions of max, present and future.

Thanks to Max Neuhaus for suggestions about this.

Cheers
Gary Lee Nelson
Oberlin College
http://www.timara.oberlin.edu/GaryLeeNelson