EricofSD, please tell me I am misunderstanding what you are saying. I am getting the impression that you don't think Poser 5 can reflect obects in the scene, and that you must first render and save an image file that is then fed to the environment map node. This is totally incorrect. You plug a raytrace node into the reflection color input and enable raytracing under render options. Viola, your sphere reflects whatever is in the scene.