So, I'm done adjusting the joint parameters for the re-grouped toes. I had to use three programs to do it. Because of my camera navigation problem in D|S, I used Poser to position the falloff spheres on the right side, then switched to the DAZ setup tools to mirror them (because Poser refused to do that, probably because it didn't recognize the names) and finally copied and pasted the settings into my master file via CR2Builder. The last step is to prevent weird stuff creeping into the cr2. I'm probably slightly paranoid there, but Poser particularly tends to break random things if one isn't very, very careful. For example, saving a figure when IK is enabled breaks the hierarchy and makes the feet children of the hip. I'm not kidding.

Anyway, I'm really happy with the new setup. The most common thing, namely bending all the toes at once, can now done with a single dial. No more interference of multiple joints trying to push the same vertices around from two sides. Posing the big toe separately causes some poke-through with the toecap, but that can be fixed with JCMs. Stockings would restrain the big toe somewhat anyway, so those JCMs are probably not even that urgent.

If anyone's very eager to try the new toe rig, let me know, and I'll upload the modified files. Otherwise, I'll probably wait until some more changes have accumulated.

-- I'm not mad at you, just Westphalian.