It is clear that a plug-in is needed to properly import Poser figures into Carrara. Since Eovia and CL have formed this alliance they should work at making the products more friendly to each other. Something like Vue 4's import filter for Poser figures would be much welcomed. I love Poser, but like a lot of other Poser users have been disappointed with the bugs and hastles of this most recent version 5. Service release patch 3 is due to come out soon, though, so hopefully it will take care of most if not all of the remaining bugs. Poser 5 can create hair as memory hoggin strand based objects. It does not readily export to any 3D program that I know of. The bright spot is that if you don't intend to render your image in Poser, you can use hair props, which with the right textures and transparency maps, look just as good (if not better in my opinion) than the new srand based hair that you can grow on an object. Daz has excellent and realistic looking hair that you can buy, plop on your figure's head and be done with it. If you are serious about creating photo-realistic humans for you scene you should seriously consider getting Poser. To me it's worth the money.