Lightwave is Awesome! If you are going to get it you will probably want to learn rigging anyway?

Getting Poser animations into is a pain though. I also use PPP.

Here are a couple of samples. I rigged Grim for limited movement without using weight maps.

And the 2nd shows Reflections

Grim rigged

Vicki3 and reflections

but i agree, try the demo's. And let us see some of your work! ^ ^