Michael "when I tried the same thing on another less complex scene a static wall prop moved unless I pressed shift. The wall was well down in the list." AH-HA! Looks like a variation on Poser's mysterious bug where internally it thinks one item is selected, even though it shows to the user that a different item is selected. I had only seen this happen when the latter item had just been loaded - it appears selected, but turning dials or applying a pose may affect whatever had been the PREVIOUSLY selected item. I'm curious: had you recently manipulated the static wall prop?