Quote - I found P7 doing this for my external runtime, but then when I checked which runtime I was in, I noticed I was in the default Poser 7 runtime.  When I switched into the external runtime, and then tried to open a file, Poser did'nt keep asking for .OBJs, Textures, etc.

I tried that, and it didn't help. I didn't think it would. I would guess that possibly you thought it worked because you had already located some files, then opened another document, at which point Poser had already cached the locations of some files in your external runtime.