Quote - Stripping the Setup room out of Poser, and making a standalone Poser rigging tool would make sense to me. Content developers would buy the rigging tool, while straight users can do very well without. Might be a feasible route to keep the base Poser application affordable.

I'm not really a fan of them taking anything out of Poser, and I don't believe it would lower the cost if they did.  Based on the fact that CP has a survey out about desired poser features, I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't another version out by the end of the year:
http://www.contentparadise.com/phpQ/fillsurvey.php?sid=66