I think they have done something with their VISE installers, so now they only work in OS 9.2.2 and nothing earlier.

Interesting. Since I no longer use 9.2.2 or anything earlier, I wouldn't have noticed. What I have noticed recently is that recent DAZ installers are Carbon instead of Classic, and can run with just Mac OS X. Your older 9.x probably lacks the latest Carbon extension. > Daz could save alot of $$ and man-hours if they did it like everybody else and used zip files which expand to Runtimes in the place of our choice. Their use of installers makes them look like they're stuck in the 80s.

The installers are a nice convenience; we don't need to use MacConverter on DAZ files. Which is nice, if not essential. Now, with Poser 5, it no longer matters -- they could ship the raw crossplatform Poser 5 files and png previews, and both Mac and PC people would be happy. Unfortunately, when Fractal faced the design decisions associated with a cross-platform product, they decided against cross-platform data formats, and relied on the Mac's resource fork architecture. Which has a lot of nice advantages, as long as you're not transferring files; but meant that the PC files needed to be different. CL has finally fixed this problem for Poser 5, and that's great -- any PC packages that don't need pefs and that are at least ProPack aware (png instead of rsr) work just fine on both without any conversion.