did you uncompress the poser files?  most of poser's native files, such as the p4 dude - are compressed to save space. 
vue cannot read these files, as it is proprietary to poser.  you must run the poser python script within poser to uncompress these files, then use the uncompressed version in your scene files - or vue will crash.

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