Here's me waking up to the fact that Eye yam -on occasion- a horses ass...pop
tyger, many props to you for bringing that into the realm of the obvious, if it wasn't before.
Duh...the direct selection tool! 
Shoot, here I was just assuming I was actually in that mode...not without the big clown-faced handlebars and pretty primary colors, I wasn't!
Jeez, I feel so silly, downright stupid even. Here Poser was already capable of doing exactly what i thought (as pointed out... passionately) that it should.
I guess I shoulda spend more time reading the manual than I did, dya think?
heh. a bitter one.  time to lay off the various elixars of celebration and inebriation...