Yep, just look through the carlswood track in TrackEd, and the track.shd file, and just look at the settings used there to get an idea of how to adjust settings in your files.
It'd help if you tried to keep the thread to one problem at a time.
Try with just the trees/fences/transparency. What exactly have you done, and what isn't working?
If you have 3DS Max, avoid BTB. Just don't even begin trying to use BTB as no one here bar Quad Core Max seems to use it... and from his last report on how he uses BTB > Racer it's more complicated than just using 3DS Max to start with hehe!
Also the CTR you are using to export stuff doesn't seem finished to me. Using Some1 DOF tool is more intuitive, though a bit slower. However, Some1's tool doesn't split smoothing groups which is a pain. If he gets time hopefully he'll update it but for now you need to split your mesh hard edges before export!
Thanks
Dave