I'm a newbie too, just got my software last week. However, I found a quick and dirty about posing figures with dynamic clothes (since the material separates, I assume too that you are using the cloth room). Here is the website www.render-lab.com/Dynamic_Clothes.htm. It's just 13 steps. Just read each step very carefully (when he speaks about going to frame 5, look at the bottom of your screen. There is funny looking bar, click on it to display the motion frames, increase the counter to 5. P.S. down load the instructions and landscape format (only four pages). You may want to reboot your computer before bringing up Poser (rationale, sometimes RAM memory gets clogged up while using XP plus Poser plus serfing and doesn't clear after you close programs. This will speed up your Poser processing of your subject. Plutom