Dr. Geep,

Thank you so much.  Very clear and very informative.  This user usually always translates and/or rotates the hip as whatever pose is the end result can be saved to the Pose library.  I think BODY poses do not save so that if you are doing a scene with two characters or have one character in a scene/set prop and want that figure to interact in a certain way the hip must be translated/rotated to save that pose to the library.  That is not to say that I sometimes do not simply yRotate the BODY in order to achieve a certain angle to the camera.

Ran into trouble with rotation in Poser before and now I have a name for it: Gimbal Lock.  Cool.

PS: I think I HAVEN'T had the problem in trueSpace (but that software has plenty of other animating issues).

Best Wishes and thanks again Good Doctor. - Rªnce