If you use body lock poses, then the translate tool isn't so bad.  Not that I use it myself - I use the body locks to combine poses.  I'll see one pose in my library that works for one part of the figure, apply it, then lock the parts I want to keep that way and use other poses for the other parts.

I forget where to find the lock poses (actually I think they're cameras, for some odd reason), but the folder I have them stored in is labeled 3DA P4 Bodylocks.  It's been so long now, I can't remember if I had to edit them to make them work with P7, V4, etc., so YMMV.