Thanks for the speedy reply Arima, I've been poking around in that list for awhile now - it's actually where I started checking things out in the first place. I'll continue browsing the list and see if I find what I'm looking for.
Knowing me I'm overlooking something. I might need to set the event to only happen once while overlapping the column although that doesn't make sense either... I have it so if the character is falling to stop and load the climbing animation which it does, but it never actually animates it. So something is forcing it off even though I have it set to animate...