A final PS: make sure you also download the PR3 update for the skin template in the VSS prop.

And having applied the MAT to the template, connect the Colour_Map node (way over on the right) into the Diffuse Colour slot on the PoserSurface, if this is not already done. (This was an omission, and gives a white preview, although it still renders correctly.) Then save the amended prop to your library and use that one in future.

"If I were a shadow, I know I wouldn't like to be half of what I should be."
Mr Otsuka, the old black tomcat in Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)