I still work with Poser3, so I don't know if this will be of any use, but here are some suggestions: 1. I'm not too sure about this one, but at most you should only have to hit "drop to Floor" at every key frame. 2. There's a slider called "Play Range" at the bottom of the animation palette that you can use for this. 3. In Poser3 the ground plain is more or less like a prop. You make it visible by ticking it on the guides menu, and you can move it (Y-tran/X-tran/Z-tran) or scale it in your first frame, delete all susequent keyframes for that element and it should stay where you put it. Hope it helps. Berge