My stuff is for Poser, and as you've found the solution to your actual problem, but my Poser Optimization tutorial does hold a few points that apply in general for importing figures, .pz3 or obj, that maybe of use toyou, link is in my signature :)

Another thing though is when bump maps images are too small in size you get .jpg artifacts showing, damn I hate that, which is why I always keep copies of originals of textures, so I can use big originals for bump/displacements if necessary.

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