Factor -
I feel your pain.  I recently got 4 different snakes just in effort to pose the dang thing.  I have to say the Easy Pose snake from CP is by far the easiest - (the word easy being a FAR stretch of the imagination).   
The Easy Pose snake comes with a few poses and skin variations too.   It is meant for use with the P4 snake.

Kalon - you rock!!!!

Even a couple more starting points is a blessing. 

I am:  aka Velocity3d