I think I followed this, but I want to understand the final outcome: Maveris mentioned that if the scene is saved, and then re-loaded, that Poser (*?) has the crosstalk problem again. But then he mentioned that adding Null figure between each would avoid the crosstalk. I thought that Null figure by itself avoided crosstalk, in which case I don't understand how Maveris discovery helps? Next question, suppose I am using Poser 5. Under what conditions would this technique be helpful? Or is it only an issue with Poser 4s crosstalk bug? Hmm. this makes me wonder something else. Is the cross-talk only because the figures have the same name? I mean, if I had two identical figures, that had been edited so they had different names, would that help avoid crosstalk? What I'm really wondering here is whether there is some utility / Python script that would help with this whole mess. Something like: every time you want a duplicate of a figure, the utility copies it, but changes whatever it needs to change, so that Poser won't treat it as a clone - instead will treat it as a whole new, unique, figure.