But anyway, everything seems to conform okay (for a first timer) except the cuff on the sleeve.  I think it may be a problem with my grouping (done in Blender) but I tried regrouping the area two or three times and haven't manage to get rid of the distortion. 

The distortion in the render occurs when I bend the forearm.  It conforms fine when I use side-to-side and twist, but it gets messed up when I bend. 

If anyone has any thoughts or suggestions I would very much appreciate it.
Thanks.

Check the joints for the forearm(s).

It is most likely that all you'll need to do is make a very small adjustment to one of the joint spherical fall off zones. Difficult to explain, easy to show in a video tutorial. If you would like to go to the link below, scroll down the page and you'll see links to the videos.

http://www.philc.net/tutorialsIndex.htm

Hope that helps.

Quote - It is most likely that all you'll need to do is make a very small adjustment to one of the joint spherical fall off zones. Difficult to explain, easy to show in a video tutorial. If you would like to go to the link below, scroll down the page and you'll see links to the videos.

http://www.philc.net/tutorialsIndex.htm

Hope that helps.

Thank you so much sir.  Those joint parameter tutorials turned out to be just what I needed. 

Looks much better without a shark fin coming out of the sleeve.

I need some more help it seems.  I more or less finished modeling the second piece that goes with the costume I am making.  I set it up pretty much the same way as the first piece in terms of grouping, editing the CR2, etc.  However it does not show up in Poser when I load it from my library.  The figure name shows up as having been loaded but the figure is nowhere to be seen.  Checking reverse normals doesn't work.  Any help would be great.
Thanks.

Check the group names in the OBJ file and ensure that they exactly match what is in the CR2 file.

From what I can see, they seem to match. 

They do have to match exactly - Hip is not the same as hip, for instance. Letter case is important.

I don't think letter case is the problem.  It looks like I named them the same as in the Cr2. 
Additionally, I did a little remodeling on my original piece that did work okay, didn't change any of the group names, but the revised version doesn't show up in Poser either.  ???

Would you be willing to send your files to someone else (me, for instance)? That may be the easiest way to get to the bottom of this. I'd promise not to redistribute them, of course.

Quote - Would you be willing to send your files to someone else (me, for instance)? That may be the easiest way to get to the bottom of this. I'd promise not to redistribute them, of course.

Thank you for the offer.  I just sent my files to PhilC this morning though so hopefully he can help me figure out what's wrong. 

I wouldn't be too worried about redistribution anyway, since it is part of a character set I wanted to make available as a freebie in the first place.  That is assuming I can get it all working properly.