Ideally, use Poser 5 with the Daz figures. I agree with what others have said here about Don and Judy--they aren't awful, but they aren't the sort of thing that you can use right out of the box (by default they look like aliens, or claymation characters), and P5 doesn't give you many tools to deform their meshs outside the face room. Even the face room is disappointing--"morph putty" is really just adjusting morph target dials by clicking and dragging on the figure. It's an imprecise way to build characters, because it's nearly impossible to limit your deformations to a small area or specific adjustments. Click and drag on the brow ridge, and you also deform the chin and mouth. It's easier to simply adjust the morph target dials manually (which is all the morph putty is doing, anyway). The DAZ characters with the morph packs have a LOT more morphs, both for the face and for the body (aside from breast and gential morphs, you'll have to do all your body adjustments for Don and Judy with magnets). That said, I think Poser 5 SR3 is worth buying for the cloth room alone, which totally blows away anything you could ever do with conforming clothing. It has a moderate learning curve, but it's worth investing time in. Vickie 3 with dynamic P5 simulated clothing is about as good as it gets. If you can only get one or the other for now, I'd start with the DAZ characters, however.