Ok, here's the problem, and it's one of Poser's biggies: one parent group cannot share a single connection across two groups. The "Y" shape connection of your buttock (?) pieces to the hip is where the problem is occuring. In order to have those two groups you'd have to assign a strip of polys down the center to the hip so that the "Y" connection is broken up, leaving buttock groups connecting only to the hip rather than meeting each other the way they do. My suggestion on a piece like this, however is actually to take all the polys currently in the buttocks and below, group them into the hip, then add a set of dummy bones that are parented to the hip. These extra bones should get no geometry grouped to them; just make sure they are parented to the hip and that the geometry is in the hip group as described and these extra bones will have influence over that geometry in a very smooth way. For my own work, I sometimes will put entire chains of dummy bones inside long clothing, then setup ERC based remote control rigs that allow one to control these bones from the hip or body rather than having to drill through the dropdowns. Anyway, that's the method I would use here. If you try going that route keep one big thing in mind: you will be spending a fair amount of time dealing with spherical falloffs on the dummy bones otherwise things like twisting and bending of them will send the bottom of the skirt flying into the stratosphere. :) =Les