Although it's known that I have a low enough regard for the P4 and P5 manuals, I do have to point out something rather important. The manuals do teach you te basics. Although a typo is int he p5 manual and it's fairly useless regarding the functions of different specific things within the program, it's very much a usable work in terms of learning how to get around in the program itself. The manuals failures are in giving a user a grasp on workflow, basic metaphors, and in the ideas of how to do things beyond the basic functions (load a figure. Load clothes. Conform clothes. Pose figure. rant. 00 you know, essential stuff). So while the manual may be a bad user's guide, it's a good tool for getting the hang of using the basic functions in poser. Given the nature of the Shade manuals, it wouldn't surprise me at all if the manuals that come with Poser 6 are of considerably greater usefulness -- and not just to poser 6 users, either. but I am crazy. So there may not be a great deal of value there.

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)