sigh

Nevermind, guys. I'm sorry. It seems that Poser will ONLY export png's properly when the Firefly engine is used to render. If rendering with Firefly, png's come into image editor just fine. If rendering with the P4 engine, it exports the sharding .png the same way as it would a bloody .jpg.

Nevermind... >.<; 

goes to hide in a corner LOL