The material zones for the pants are:

body
fifth pocket
loops
brass
button
rear pockets
jams
pants

The thing is that no matter what material zone I apply the transparency to, nothing changes.  Even if I click "Apply current material to all materials available to this object?", nothing changes.  Once the problem starts, which is immediately upon applying the transparency map, that's the way the figure stays.  The only change I can make is to make each material zone invisible and visible again with the transparency dial.

Like I said, it worked fine a few weeks ago, and I saw it work once (on the body zone) when I started today.  When I went to apply it to the rest of the figure, the transparency map disappeared and was replaced by the texture map.  Since then, it's been random levels of transparency on different zones at every time with each try at applying the transparency map  Thinking it might be a memory problem, I've exited Poser and started up again several times, but with no luck.