bagginsbill,

For AO artifacts I have another solution, -- Photoshop. lol  -^
Sucks about AO. I always wondered why AO didn't work for me when it did for other people.

I am not having trouble with the Mac P6 Python. Everything is working fine (after I did the SR3 update). I can render from the python menu and click on Designer and play around in there.

I have some quick questions:  

1. Do the Beach Lights add sweat/water droplets to a figure?
2. Can eyebrow and eyelashes shaders be left untouched by VSS?

Okay, now here's what the magic of Photoshop can do:
Retouching AO spots, and adjust Skintone. I did a 2 click skintone color correction and was able to match the target skintone really well. Yea. ^^

The other trouble spots you can see are the eyebrow and eyelashes. The transmaps are behaving oddly. Also, I did retouch the eyewhite to take out some of the pink. The lacrimals are lacking a texture, that's Mybad. SR3 broke the locations of my texture maps and I missed the lacrimal one. Oopsie.

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j252/BastBlack/Art/Work%20In%20Progress/photoshopadjust2.jpg