*I tried to get into the physicalc software forums, but you have to be admin approved, lame, and nobody has approved me, and I am getting frustrated with this apparent waste of money. 

I get almost 500 new "bot" users per day and if they  are auto-approved, I end up with a board full of threads pointing to inappropriate material.

*When I run it it blooms props (inflates them)- which I have seen elsewhere that a fix is turn off smoothing- but I don't want to turn off smothing.

If you are looking for realism renders, having smoothing on is a must.  Just use Winvdb's suggestion above.

*-I can't run the script more than a few times before it gives me a bad texture warning or something to that effect- it kills all of the memory, can't load texture- I have 2 gig of ram- really, it should be enough.

I haven't had this problem reported before.  Could you provide the exact error you are getting?  A screen-dump would be ideal.

*-It negates, or turns off my ratraced shadows.

The script doesn't change any shadow settings

*-it turns off or negates my AO

Are you referring to material-based OA or light-based.  It will remove your AO material nodes when it applies the new node setup, but doesn't change the light-based AO settings in any way.

*-it says you are supposed to be able to run the script numerous times and it will update the figure- it does not, or sometimes does, then when I think I have the right settings, I save it- only to find the appearance changed when I reopen poser to render.

This sounds like your scene is corrupt (and would also explain a lot of the other problems you are having).  Start with a new scene and it will work fine.  I've had cases where I've loaded a poorly written figure or material file, saved the scene and re-loaded it, and there is a corruption in the save file.  Unfortunately starting the scene again seems to be the only answer (and don't use figure or props that have errors embedded in them).

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