I don't know much about this, but if you stripp out the normal part of the pose file and only leave the IK part, then applying the pose will only affect the figure if IK is turned on.

So the answer to your first question is almost "yes", except I think that Poser will always use the pose data in the "normal" first part of the file, but if IK is turned on, then the data applied by the first part will be overwritten by the second (ikchannels) part (I think).

I'm not sure I understand the second question.

Message edited on: 09/29/2004 15:21