You folks hit the nail on the head for resolving the parse error!!

The Faceroom file from Apollo fixed everything up in a heartbeat.

I'd originally attempted to kill the prefs (though I'd saved off mine Just in case)
and that was no good. OPened a ticket at e-f, then did some searching and
found nothing initially.  Tried reinstalling SR2 to see if that helped - but no
joy there either, then this morning, found this thread, and Poof instant fix.

The Apollot faceroom file is now in my emergency backup archive of poser
prefs :)

Thanks again all!

Falcon