When you save your characters with the manually loaded textures, do you have the transmaps saved from the material room, as well? 

I generally don't save textured characters since I change my textures often enough when I'm working on a product that it isn't worthwhile for me to load an already textured character.

One thing I do know is that I have my display set to texture shaded so that textures are displayed in the document window.

Not having a Mac I don't know if there are any differences that on my PC.  I've been using Poser since ver. 4 so I'm pretty conversant with its features and haven't had this problem.  When I load a mat file the tranparencies come in just fine if they're saved in the mat pose (which I still use on my own machine for convenience) and offer in my packages.

Hugz from Phoenix, USA

Victoria

Remember, sometimes the dragon wins. Correction: MOST times.