Quote - Poser 6 makes its own material files in the material room.

Yes indeed.  Unless someone is trying to make files that are backwards compatable
with P4 to sell commercially there is no reason to continue using the old hack of
mat pose files.  They are obsolete as of Poser 5 and way too much time and trouble
as compared to just making up a material collection in the material room.
Plus a simple material file can be put on anything, clothes, props, background,
characters, one file for all. And if you use procedurals you don't fill up your hard drive
with a bunch of jpeg texture files.