There will be a Poser 6. It's highly unlikely the face room will work on figures other than those designed for it because it is mesh dependent. Figures have to be designed to work with it. That's not possible with the Mil folk. The old method for loading textures is never going to return: it simply is not capable of using the sheer number of features possible with Firefly, and has no method for chaining available to it, which is critical for procedural textures. The two renders (p4 renderer) may actually cease to be in P6, but that's still pretty unlikely. The Hair room hair does look real if you learn to use it properly. Hair in any 3D app still has some issues, but it's the skill of the artist involved and how they make use of it that counts. Look at Kozaburo's efforts in non-dynamic hair. The "new President" of CL is the President of E-frontier, which is the company that merged with CL. Note that the two still exist separately -- this is more of a partnership. Since then, there has been no change in ownership (barring something strange happening today) Your questions have all been discussed previously, as well.

thou and I, my friend, can, in the most flunkey world, make, each of us, one non-flunkey, one hero, if we like: that will be two heroes to begin with. (Carlyle)