The mask going all caflooey when you parent it to the stick is probably due to the stick having a scale other than 100 on the x, y, or z. Thus when you parent the item to the stick, Poser imposes the new scale on the child. You can get around this a number of ways. One is to use the grouping tool on the stick and spawn a new prop. This will make the current scale the default (100 percent) for the stick. Another thing you can do is load a box prop, parent the stick to the box and parent the object to the box, and hide the box. The object will appear parented to the stick, but you can move both around in your scene by moving the box. Use the object editor to make the box invisible when you are done. You can unparent props by selecting universe in the Parent options editor. Or drag and drop via the Hierarchy Editor as mentioned above. You can not unparent a cr2 figure this way, but you can parent it to something new, such as the ground plane. For example, say you have a cr2 parented to another cr2 and decide you want to unparent the child. You can parent the child to another object in your scene. If you want to get rid of parenting all together, load a box, parent to the box, then delete the box. This will return the child to the universe.