I'm talking about a structure like this:

MyCoolFreebie/Runtime/Libraries/Character/M-Smith/Victoria 3/Dresses/Satin-Dress

I don't care about the number of folders after runtime, as long as the libraries folders are in the same places.

If, as Gareee says, it's a method of organization, well, shouldn't that be left to me? I don't want other people organizing my runtime. It's like those Poserworld or PoserPros pose files stuck in the Cameras folder. We haven't needed that for three poser versions now, change it.

If the top level in the zip is Runtime, then those who organize everything into multiple runtimes can easily extract to their named runtime. Even so, the one who zipped it is making do some manual work.

As for using XPs zip browse, I usually don't get there. I open the zip from Firefox's downloads window, which opens into the default zip program one might have, Winzip in my case. Then I can easily extract to my poser 7 runtime because it's remembered.

I still don't think there's any valid reason for this type of packaging.

Oh, and I don't think one should be grateful for for-sale products. The vendors should be grateful that we buy them. And I AM grateful for freebies, as I said, I have given some away myself. But what's the point of giving someone a freebie along with a poke in the eye?