I tried what you suggested and moved the hip of the dress up on the Y axis. However, it shifted the entire dress upwards and looked awful, not to mention it uncovered the entire top of the figure. So instead of doing that, I moved the whole figure, including the dress up off the floor on the Y axis, just until the back hem of the dress was very slightly off the floor as seen in a tilted side view using the main camera. I then did the cloth room stuff. Saved the file as a PZ3, exited Poser and then edited the PZ3 file to get rid of those entries as listed a few posts up. However, now I can't even open the PZ3 file in Poser. I thought it was just taking loger but after 15 minutes I closed Poser, rebooted and tried again. I still can't open up the PZ3 now. It totally hangs up like it's opening, only it never opens. Does this work with the MFD in Poser 6 without all the jumping through hoops of having to lift the dress and edit PZ3 files etc etc? If so it will be the one single thing that will push me to upgrade to Poser 6, because I've long wanted to have that dress's skirt dynamic, and in order to be able to get that, it's worth spending the money to upgrade as it will allow me way more versatility.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi