What are your settings in the Render room? Maybe your using one of the NPR or Draft settings? Or, (I hate to ask this, but...) is your monitor set to something besides millions of colors? What file format are you saving to? GIF or JPEG, could end up looking bad like that, depending on the settings. I know a lot of people import Poser files, but I don't. That being said, I know Carrara can do it and if I remember correctly, there is a rgeat tutorial available here on R'Osity about it. When you attach a skeleton to an object, you lose a lot of control over it. Instead all control goes to the skeleton. If you detach the object from the skeleton, you'll be able to manipulate it however you want. Including deleting it. Good luck, and have fun! I know I am with it. :>