Chattering Toy Teeth Character

I've been putting the final touches on the code for the "Chattering Toy Teeth" character. It's almost done, just fine tuning it to match up with sounds and working out the characters death setup for when Bud the Spud jumps on him. I'm making him similar to the Potato Beetles in that it will take Bud two jumps to defeat this enemy. Because he has a top and lower jaw section I'm not sure how that will workout but I'm sure I'll figure it out.

I've been having some export issues with Max 8 lately, for some reason when I export out as FBX with the Y set to Up when it shows up inside of unity it's still Z up?? Very strange. So I've had to use my fix that I ended up using for my Alien Zombies a while back where I had to place my character inside of an empty game object and reference the animation to the model inside of that object. I have no idea why Max 8 suddenly decided to muck up my exports when they were working fine before?? 

Max 8 to Unity 3D Normals Problem

OK I've run into this before a few time and the usual way it's fixed is to go back into Max 8 and select the parts that are causing the problem and click on polygons and select all and then flip them and re import the model back into Unity 3D. But this time it's not working!!

Here you can see in the "Preview pane" (Lower right hand corner) that the model looks fine but in the scene view (Upper Left Hand corner) you can see that the "Normals" are "Flipped" not only are they flipped but they are catching the light wrong too!! WTF, this must be another fine Unity bug in the latest version.
I've tried reimporting the model several different ways even just dragging in the native Max 8 file and nothing seems to be fixing this rather annoying problem. I tried flipping the normals on the head in Max 8 and re Unwrap UVW mapping the head again to no avail?? I've been at this all day trying to figure it out.

Scenic Details Added

Because bud is a small potato character his surroundings need to reflect this in some way, as you've no doubt noticed that everything is "potato character sized" in my game. In keeping with that in mind I wanted something more added to the terrain to keep that feeling of being a small character in mind, so I made these nice medium poly blades of grass that I can place here and there throughout the various levels that are outdoors and above ground. Here we can see "Bud the Spud" standing amongst some new blades of grass placed close the the base of the Tree House tree base. Thankfully the FBX file is only 175 kilobytes in size so it should not be too big of a deal for me to use a fair amount of them so long as I don't go overboard.

I was looking into how one places mass trees in Unity 3D to see if perhaps performance wise if that might be a better and maybe even more easier way to place these new blades of grass onto my game level terrain but even though I added the model as a new tree mesh it was not painting them onto my terrain for some reason so I don't know why that is, as I say it's a very reasonably sized model at only 175 KB??