One of things that I find Poser 5 good for is the Materials Room.  I create a lot of my stuff in Carrara, save it as an .obj and use Poser for the materials--the results are a lot better especially the transparency node.  Examples are furniture (chairs, sofas, dressers, desks, etc), stereo equipment (old fashion tape recorders, turntables, speakers etc), grandfather clocks, pianos, scones, lights you name it.  Oh yeh, the figures-dabble a little there, well maybe a little more than little.  Jan