Thanks, stormchaser. 
Yeah, I hear ya.
 I'd much rather have a more straight-forward approach than in Poser, using IBL to cover the global illum function :( 

I will check that out, not sure if we own it yet but we soon will for sure. 
It's an app i see mentioned a lot in the Poser realm. 
Does it stand alone and open poser pz3 files?