Miss Nancy...  I just tried your method using only the Assembly room (not taking it into the vertex model room) and have the same result.  Comparing the 2 object files, the one straight from the Assembly room seems to have some jusnk in it and the one from the model room seems cleaner.

I bought Carrara 7 Pro in early March.  I check with DAZ to see if I'm missing an update or have one that has problems.

Other than the scaling , the only other big difference between Carrara and Poser is that you have convert the z-axis in Carrara to y-axiz in Poser.  But the meshes look fine.  ???

Thanks for your help.