{I honestly feel ALL of these items could be dealt with in the next release, including a spiffed-up render engine. } I doubt they could address ALL of these issues and still keep Poser an "entry level" (i.e. less than $500) product. An improved Rendering Engine is allegedly in the works, but either there will be two "flavors" of Poser (Consumer, or <=$400 per seat, and Professional, or >$500 with all bells and whistles), or it won't be that much of an improvement. And while I'm certain the hair will be greatly advanced over what we now have, we're either $500 or two+ versions of the software from having something that "everyone" would be happy with...