setting ticks on Axes3D

greetings. i am trying to set ticks on a 3d plot. i see this question was asked here, in january, but does not seem to have a response:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=6946b9501001040452s7aac73bam52d3075645c1f657@...288

is there an example available of setting ticks on an Axes3D object? everything i try results in strangely distorted graphs.