Saving as for a new puppet

I had a full body puppet but want to use the head so I used the "save as" command.  And on the new file deleted everything except the +head, +body files (i deleted files within the body like arms and legs.).  Now I can easily import the head file into character animator, and even to the rig window but when i try and create a scene, the puppet doesn't appear.

I even brought in an image for background easily... but no head appears.