I had assumed you'd posted it somewhere.  28 pages was just too much to read through when realised I could already be playing with the VSS itself.  It is a weekend though, so I may get to it.

So you understand the problem but it still surprises you?  Hmmm...  As far as I know, I'm only one SR behind (P7), because I was waiting to see if the initial SR3 complaints were indicative of problems I'd run into.  For what it's worth, I am told by Poser that the file is newer than expected.  Poser also asks for a texture called "no_map" that it cannot find.  (Just a hunch, but there is no such texture, is there?)  Could be a driver thing even.
 
Is there an easy way to preserve the root node settings, while still creating and connecting the cool stuff the script makes?  I love the crazy gob of noodles your script chucks out, but not how it also changes root node values like diffuse colour (which I know is not an accurate way to darken skin tones, but it is good for alien tinting), highlight size and the aforementioned transparency.  I thought I could copy before syncronising and then paste, but that seems to always unplug the child noodles which I find a bit cluttered to (quickly) plug back in.  (Actually, shouldn't they be preserved in a copy and paste?  Or do the noodles belong to the children?)  If I could figure out how to do this, it would solve my other problems.