>> Jack, it seems to have a band across the >> bottom when rendering...:>)

Yeah, it looks even worse on my machine,as shown. Just to test it, I imported the model into POV-Ray, and it seems to render okay, except for the too-well-defined edges in the band. I modeled the band at the bottom with hard edges, so the vertext normals make it look odd in POV.

I intruded the base of the hat inside, to make it hollow, and I suspect that that's part of the problem. I'd bet that Poser is getting some of those polygons to show. I'll see about modelling a different one without the interior polygons and see if that makes a difference.

Jack