Thanks wdupre, I only tessellat the toenails, and the right toe appears to fit perfectly with no open seams. When I create the mirrored right toe I have to rename it rtoe for it to show up in Poser (it initially copies as ltoe01). Somehow I am thinking that the right toe is retaining mapping from the left toe and the map is being applied backwards or something...what an excercise in frustration!! The problem really only shows up when I bring in the obj as a whole figure and not as a morph. The UV mapping must come from the Obj file in the Geometries folder when using a morph.

Amacord, thanks very much I will give this a try and report back!