Wow, this is a very interesting post though!  Its like two great superpowers duking it out.  :)

How about you both create an exact scene using maybe BB's panoramic view there and BB can do his magic in Poser and Cath can do hers with her method and lets see how the final product looks rendered.  It sounds like BB is saying he can use his standard pano shot today inside of poser using the math nodes to do the work that Cath might do using other software.  I have a funny feeling this ends with exactly the same result, just different working methods.  You both offer a wealth of info to this community, and I think we can all agree we're all learning as we go along these threads...Gosh knows I am.

Afterwards we all go out and get a beer!