I've seem numerous instances of people here talking about rendering Poser stuff in Bryce but, when i went to do that, I couldn't find any area that supported importing Poser files. Will upgrading to Bryce 4 help with this or do I need to export the Poser files as .3ds?

You should export the poser files as OBJ files. They work the best. If your figure has props or clothes, when the dialog opens up asking you what to export, unclic universe, then click figure, and go down the list and click everything from there down that isn't clicked. That will ensure you get your props. When you import it into Bryce, you'll get a dialog asking you to locate the texture files for it. Just go ahead and do that. Personally, I select the entire figure and apply a flesh color and then texture it from there, but other people like doing it with the poser texture

Export as obj, unless, as i recently discovered, you have about ten 3ds props going....very nasty lockup, it didn't like trying to export it as an obj...as for the textures, they translate well into bryce, just adjust the specularity a bit.

Great! Thanx for the help guys. I tried exporting to 3ds but the figures came out weird. OBJ worked much better :-)