And yeah, those LoRez Poser figures suck.
But show me a single (unmodified) Poser figure that doesn't.

No professional 3d artist will touch them with a ten foot pole if they can buy ready to go ArchViz figures from Evermotion or Dosch or AXYZ.
And professional Studios model their own figures to avoid ANY problem with copyright, period.

But they might still be some use for "advanced hobbyist" animators or as background fillers.
Still it wouldn't have hurt to invest a bit more time in them to make them look a wee bit more human.

BTW, right now I don't have much use for PoserPro, but my next machine will be 64bit, and then I'll definitely "sidegrade" to it.

I wish they would have improved the MorphBrush, but I already developed a nice workflow to use it across seams for FBM morphs, so I can wait till this problem will be (hopefully) solved in Poser 8.
Besides, ZB3 can't smooth across groups of an unwelded Poser mesh either, so it's not such a big deal to me.