Just found out that you can also go to file->export->Paths to illustrator and it creates an illustrator .ai file which is really cool if you want any of the paths you make to be able to be used in illustrator...or better yet for me I found that 3d studio will import .ai files as splines.

You can do some pretty neat stuff with paths actually...for example if you use one of the mask painting tools to paint up a nice mask you can go to the paths tab and to the left of the new path tool is a tool called "Make Work Path from Selection" which turns your mask into a path. Which you can then export to illustrator or stroke the path or whatever you need to do.

Hope this helps somebody.