Also they ought to make a program to design your set. Boom, here is the floor, here are the walls, I want a window here, a table and chair there and then bring it into one of the other programs.

Check out Maclean's "Room Creator" sets over at DAZ. It's not a separate program, but it does allow you to build your own sets within Poser.

What I would call a model or character can be a face, a character, a prop, whatever. Hair sets seem to fall into ANY catagory.

It's not just linguistics. There's a technical reason behind the names we use. Hair can be a conforming figure, a regular prop, a hair file (which is pretty much a smart prop). It needs to go into different sections of your library depending on which one it is.

Finding stuff makes the task of mucking around with these program tedious at times. Any solutions to this?

Both Poser 5 and D|S support multiple runtimes and nested folders. You can organize your runtime(s) as you wish, within certain limits. You have even more freedom in Poser 6, where figures can be put in the prop section of the library.

However, I wish the search engine was a bit more specific. Perhaps adding search for but NOT would be a good idea.

We've been complaining about that for years. The Rosity search engine sucks like a black hole. And they block out Google, so you can't use Google to search the site, either.

Is it just me or are black and latina characters way under represented?

They are underrepresented. And many of the ones that exist aren't very good, because they are morphs of European figures, such as Vicky and Mike.

I can recommend Miki and Koji, for sale at Content Paradise, as Asian figures. They are not morphs. They were designed as Asian figures from the start, and it shows. (However, if you buy them, you will have to run them through a conversion program to use them in Poser 5. They should work "out of the box" in Poser 6 and D|S.)

I have seen a few exceptions to this but for the record not all women have enourmous breasts and bee stung pouty lips.

Yeah, but those are the ones that sell. :) You don't see a lot of ugly models or centerfolds, do you? Poser's no different. Glamor is pretty much the name of the game.

Where are the celebrity look alikes?

There are some, but they are hard to find, because they aren't advertised by name. The serial numbers are filed off. You might try looking at Gwendolyn's female characters, and JPeter's male characters. The faces might look familiar. ;-)

Has anyone found a hair package that recreates the styles from my salad days, the 80's? Remember "Big Hair"? Or Jersey Girl Hair?

Sorry, I have no clue what you're talking about. You might have better luck if you post images of what you are looking for.