Blender 2.49b not baking and flipping normals when joining meshes

[maxdman]

Well, just as the title says, its being a pain in the ass.  I haven't changed my bake settings since the last time I successfully made a track, so I create a new image, project form view bounds, ambient occlusion and clear are selected, yet when I hit bake, my computer mouse loads and nothing happens.  Also when I CTRL+J to join everything together to export it, blender flips normals on only selected things.  Help would be greatly appreciated.

[maxdfandan555]

For the flip normals problem, identify what objects are being flipped when joining. Pre-Flip them before joining so that when you do join they flip back to what they should be like. 

[Edy]

For the flip normals problem, identify what objects are being flipped when joining. Pre-Flip them before joining so that when you do join they flip back to what they should be like. 

 

Or use Ctrl + n when everything joined, just select everything