Hi,

Well, it turns out to be very funky.   I now have it "working" mostly.

Yes, I am doing image sequences because I've decided its the best way to create flv files at full color.  (image sequence to quicktime to flv converter or image sequence to flv depending
on your flvr.  The poser flash stuff ain't so hot)

The master queue manager gets confused easily.  Experimenting around

1)  I changed the "file location back to" a local drive rather than UNC path

2. turned off the QM that was never getting any communications with the QM

At that point stuff started working like it should.  I do note however, when I one time
started a new QM while a job was going, this seemed to kill the job across the board.

So I don't do that anymore.

I do have one machine (w2k3x64) of the QM that keeps dying after about 2/3 of the images and
then the rest continue and the one image that was last sent to it doesn't ever get done
and has to be resubmitted.

Restarting that QM between jobs doesn't seem to hurt anything.

Anyway, I can also note other things.

0. Vista x64 and Windows 2008 x64 seem to be the best/most reliable platforms for PPro.
   W2K3x64 and x32 both have various issues

the local QM where you submit the job doesn't seem to run renderings as far as I can
tell.  It only farms out jobs, preserving your local machine to use PPro the GUI on and
make changes.--like to change that option--apparently can't.

The QM's all "talk" about having 0 or 1 procs free, there is no way to tell the QM's to use more than 1 Proc (e.g. on a 4 proc machine use 3 procs)

3) 
QM likes to send each individual image as a new job, resending textures etc.  excess overhead.

4) 
all broadcast; no way to tell it to use a qm on a remote LAN or internet.

All that being said...

A image set render that took me 3+ days to do on my Vista x64 box took the QM running a node
on the same vista box, and a w2k8x64 box and the w2k3x64 took under 18 hours, and that's
with the w2k3 box konking out 2/3 of the way through leaving me with only 2 nodes.

On stand alone image renders.  Poser Pro was able to do one killer image of mine that
the first time I did it on P6 I had to break up into 6 layers and composite.  Took me about
8 hours including compositing first time w/P6.  Poser Pro did the whole thing in one pass
in less than 5 minutes.