Oh, I understand, but imagine trying to redo all 36 gig of your runtime to use a different method. After a year or so of work, you might actually complete it... LOL!! And yes, this ability was added to P6.. you can save a material collection for any character, and it saves the selected ones out as one file. I haven't tried it yet, but it might also work with props and hair as well.

Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.