Little Help (newbie's first project)

i was looking for a way to distribute freebies in a reletivly low prim way.
so i came up with the conclusion, of making three boxes, with three different "labels (such as "outfits" "avatars" and other boxed items).

my plan was to make it one object (like three shelf's boxes ect.) with three prims that open individually to show an inventory.

i want to be able to put new items in, and other people to be able to open the object's three compartments and copy whatever items/boxes they want from there.

I attempted to do this, but then a realised you cant "open" each indavidual prim when you make it an object. so is there a way to script it to do so?

Instead of opening the inventory contents, you could have a script give the person the inventory contents when the person touches the prim. Similar to the "touch here to unpack" boxes that some people sell their stuff in.

http://secondlife.com/badgeo/wakka.php?wakka=llGiveInventoryList

That page has an example script that will give all inventory contents to whoever touches that prim. You should be able to start with that.