all very interesting.  i thought Poser Pro was for integration with high end (meaning expensive) applications. if it's just a way i can just port my existing Poser knowledge to a higher end application (Poser Pro), and it renders better (and hopefully, more efficiently), i'm really interested. 

out of curiosity, are you using even SSS?  or are you using SSS maps? or even using the original textures to generate an SSS map?

also, could you talk more about your ray-traced light settings?  i've never found settings that were realistically blurry at their base but not unrealistically blurry at their more distant points.  or has that improved in Poser 7?