HI Joe,

I have used this book:  Secrets of Figure Creation with Poser 5 to get me started.  I used it to help me rig my "Bender" figure and a few other things which I created in Rhino.

Book link:  http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0240519299/sr=8-10/qid=1145022879/ref=pd_bbs_10/002-1534182-1883217?%5Fencoding=UTF8

Bender Image Link:  http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=969417&Start=1&Artist=Stegy&ByArtist=Yes

Also, Dr. Geep probably has some good stuff in his tutorials:

Dr Geep Link:  http://myweb.cableone.net/geep/Welcome/1_Welcome.htm