Good, that eliminates those issues.

Now, we might be barking up an entirely wrong tree, but it's worth looking at anyway. Even though you have two gig of virtual memory, it might still be worth setting rendering up to run as a separate process:
Edit-> Preferences-> Render tab-> tick the separate process box.

Also, another issue I've encountered which PhilC's helped me with (and which might well be the case with a freebie) is that the mesh of that conforming item may not be entirely intact. Here is a thread that goes into the problem at some depth:
www.philc.net/forum/viewtopic.php
Difference here to your dilemma was: Poser didn't freeze, but there were some non-polygon verts out there causing dramas in OBJ2CR2. I brought up the offending garment's .obj file in Programmer's File Editor, a free program I'd be happy to get you you if you email me. Nice for looking at huge text files, which those cr2 and obj files seem to be, for the most part.

BTW, you say your virtual memory is 2 gig... how much is your actual RAM?

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