thanks for all the opinions... and yups, I used P5 throughout all the lifepan of P6 as well, and it does seem that P7 has some nice features... but it still doesn't feel like it left P5 obsolete...

I'm not old fashioned, but I'm definately sticking to P5 until I see a real real difference in poser... like, yeah, itfPoser 7 could totally  mimic everything done on Cinema 4D, I think I'd definately take the plunge...

thanks again for the comments