The cloth room in Poser is actually fairly simple to use , in comparison to say Lightwave 8 (which I have) . Its default sdetting work fairly well for basic cloth simulations .

I think the cloth room and hair room should be viewed as complete applications themselves , and people should plan on at least a few weeks to come to terms with them .

You can hide the other rooms by editing the xml file. There are instructions for hiding Content Paradise on the web , the same thing works for the other tabs .

Python scripts are similar to Lightwaves Lscript or maxs scripting language . Nothing is cross application compatible though .