x and y velocity question positioning

[sonic04]

in my game i started, all i have right now is a warrior (the main character).
There are 4 movie elements right now, the warrior, sword, hand1, and hand2.

i also have 2 keyboard elements controling the character and the sword's attack.

ok, my element hand1 is my characters left hand and hand2 is his right.

I am having trouble with the swords attack move (in my swordsattack keyboard element), where i am using this script when i press the space bar:

element ("Sword").x=element ("hand2").x
element ("Sword").y=element("hand2").y
element("Sword").velocity.x=element("hand2").veloc ity.x
element("Sword").velocity.y=element("hand2").veloc ity.y


and when i am not pressing the space bar :

element ("Sword").x=element ("hand1").x
element ("Sword").y=element("hand1").y
element("Sword").velocity.x=element("hand1").veloc ity.x
element("Sword").velocity.y=element("hand1").veloc ity.y

what i am trying to do, is when i am not pressing the space bar the sword is in my characters left hand, and when i am holding the space bar, the sword is in my characters right hand ready to attack villians comming at him.

the problem is, is that when i hold space to switch the sword over to my characters right hand, it goes way to far out, its hard to explain but ill give my file so when u press play and press space to attack, u will see what i mean.

if u find out a way i can get the swords closer to my characters hands, please tell me,

thanks