What are you guys creating to get the whole thing crashing anyway? My largest scene until now had 14 people in it (6xM1, 6xV1, 1xP4man and 1xDon) All of them with head & Body textures (except for the P4 man). All the figures fully clothed with high res textures on the clothes and the P4 & Don both had a full knight armor on. Besides that there was the P4 horse with armor and DAZ Charger with spline bender armor. Also I had a microcosm textured ground tile, some rocks, fences, flags, a number of weapons and a fully textured battle tent. No crashes in working on scene at all. Poser 6 still responds quite well. Only problem is that I can't render the scene at all, but knew about that problem already. Fyi, I've got 1Gb of Phys Ram in my machine.

Artwork and 3DToons items, create the perfect place for you toon and other figures!

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/index.php?vendor=23722

Due to the childish TOS changes, I'm not allowed to link to my other products outside of Rendo anymore :(

Food for thought.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYZw0dfLmLk