I'm having a heck of a time getting the footware to properly cover my models feet. I am consistently getting toes and other foot parts sprouting out of the shoes. This even occurs when the shoe is "cpnformed" to the figure. Does anyone have any tips or tricks on getting this stuff to fit right other than making the underlying body part invisible or applying magnets? Any advice would be appreciated.

One of the easy ways to correct this is to double click on the foot and in the property box uncheck visible do the same for the toes or you can scale the footware

Anton once suggested creating a transparency map for the model's body, so you can zap specific spots.

The fastest way is to make anything totally hidden (such as toes inside of boots) totally invisible. I believe that if you dress a character and then go in and make the covered body parts invisible it also saves on rendering time.