Well even if the discussing the mesh here is no longer a good idea, i think the rigging discussion is OK.

So i'll just ask if anyone has done research on setting up layered rigs in poser. I dont think poser has anything like a 'parent' feature (or does it ?) but maybe through scripting ? Cause layered rigs are an elegant solution to the problem of getting good rigging along with compatibility. ie you would have separate deform rigs and pose rigs. The deform ones can be as nutty as you like, and as long the pose rig is fairly standard, various poses, props, clothes etc should work just fine with the char.

Or if its not possible now, maybe we should be bugging them to add some more basic rig tools to poser so we can do this sort of thing in the future.