Quote - See my post here, I finally got rid of the long sim times

Not sure how you got rid of long sim times from the tutorial link you supplied.  There is really nothing there useful in optimizing the sim time.  I've gone through all those steps and the recommended steps in the pdf for setting up the cloth room sim, and I'm still getting sim times between 212 to 580 seconds per frame.

I do note that one should use the lower res versions of the Poser figures when doing the simulation as that does definitely have an impact on sim times.  But it doesn't eliminate the problem.

That said, the cloth items are already properly draped for the figure when you export from VF and import to Poser, so if one wanted to take a shot at converting to a conforming figure rather than doing a cloth sim, that would work fairly well.