I did misspeak. I was of course referring to rounding the edges of a box. I found that in Poser6 this can be done, to some extent, if you change the crease angle to 100% under Smooth polygons in the objects properties tab, after reimporting the box with the vertices welded. Somehow, when applying this to furniture, as Dr. Geep did in the tutorial, it dosn't work quite as well as in his tutorial, which might have applied to Poser4. He has an interesting web site at DrGeep.com. I do work with Anim8or but I'm not that interested in doing it perfectly. Actually, I'm getting a headache from all this and wonder what the hell all of us did before Poser came along... watch the depressing news (the Bush follies!).
Thanks to all of you for your suggestions.