*"Magnets are a lot safer than leaving Poser also.  I've heard a lot of horror stories about mesh's not being compatible after having been exported, and then reimported back into Poser, after manipulation in a modeler."

*Using C4D with the tools mentioned above works very well and is easy to use. No horrorstories so far :)

LMcLean: *I guess my question was one more of how do you manipulate the geometry in C4D when it is already subdivided so heavily.

I do most morphs with C4D's magnet tool :).
Other tools I use often are "Spline deformer" and "Free Form Deformation".
Manipulating single vertices is sometimes required, yes. I do this mostly with a very small magnet.

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