3DVim I feel your pain. Your experiences have value. I think a lot of people fear someone experiencing more P6 troubles than had with P5. Although P6 ServicePack2(SR2) fixed some issues I personaly have found it still nessesary(for me) to keep both P5 & P6 on my system.

One thing I've done for my characters is to resave a copy of my Miki with the P6 feature - "Use external binary morph targets" turned off under general preferences. Make sure you use a different name like "Miki2" when doing that. That makes P6 combine the morphs into the character so even P5 can read it. I think this can be done with Jessi and James as well.

I'm sure you've probably checked most this stuff but just in case it might be helpful...  It's a check list of some things I have found can help with making P6 more stable if you feel up to trying one more time.

 a) scan & defrag the hard drive. (I've read that people have had problems when the drive is fragmented.)

 b) make sure your video drivers are current. (People had trouble with older drivers.)

 c) try checking SreeD preview and not using the OpenGL. (Under Display/preview)

 d) Turn the video hardware acceleration down one or two notches. It doesn't have to be crashing to need to do this(This often helps with computers that are fussy to.)
 * see link --->       http://www.e-frontier.com/article/view/1392/1/598/
 
 e) some people have reported that Norton AntiVirus and Poser don't like each other some times but that said I never tell anyone to run without a antivirus.

 f) if this is nothing new to you and never worked then what the heck. I use my P5 still to. At least we can make Miki and others P5 compatable. O_o  :D

If this is redundent please forgive me. I've listed these things only in case there might be something you could have over looked . You never know . :D

Good luck and best wishes.

My brain is just a toy box filled with weird things