Well, I'm going to have to load up Poser anyway.  It looks like I'm going to need to make quite a lot of my own House Mouse clothing for what I want to do.

Oh joy .... what fun ..... ick.

On a lighter note .... here is the final rendering of the project that I posted towards the top of this thread.  I can't say I have the hang of DAZ yet, but I will work on it.  Starr ... if you need someone to commiserate with, I'm here.

Could be worse, could be raining.