Please don't laugh, but I have a problem with poser 7 and I can't seem to find any help in the poser ref. manual or tutorial manual.

I have dual monitors and had the main pose window on one screen and the poser program on the other. I thought I minimized the main pose window, but now no matter what I do, I can't find the pose window. went into pref. to factory setting, nothing helps.where is the pose window?
When the program opens there is no pose window

So basically poser is useless, because I can't find the pose window

There should be a little bar thing on the far right side that you can click and it will slide right out. Did that help?

the only bar on the right side is for the library. that works fine. I'm talking about the main figure window. that should be right in the center of the work space when you are in the pose room, but it's now gone

I just closed my document window (the one you're talking about) and the only way I could find to get it back was to open a new document.  Try that and see if it works.

Just go to File prefernces and reset it to the default state. Close down, then open it up again and you should have the basic window back. 
you should always have one set up saved with the memory dots, just in case.(that's the block of 9 unlabeled dots. Just click one and it will remember where, and how big, everything is on the screen)