i've looked at bagginsbill scripts, all the shader solutions here, and asked about this over at the node cult in rdna.  you see how shiny your pics look?  that's exactly the opposite look i'm trying to acheive. 

face_off scripts are perfect if you want something to look like a photo, and a postworked photo at that.   i personally find both he and bagginsbill's solutions, though much, much, much, much, much more advanced than i could ever dream of accomplishing.  even with the proper 2 layers of sss in skin (red is for the scattering under the skin, but the skin itself also scatters),  are too red and even.  the result is a very flat look, imho, without the volume i get with pwShader.  it might not even come close to what they do in terms of realism, but i prefer the look while still loving all the skin tricks i've picked up from geniuses like face_off, bagginsbill, takezo, and others.  basically, as much as i love to use the looks i can get by tweaking poser scripts, i still want that soft pwSurface look.

i had never head of templargfx coming up with an sss script.  could you point me at it?

a link to a paper on proper sss and other effects in skin:
http://www.lamrug.org/resources/doc/sss-skin-tutorial.pdf