Rats can you tell us what to try or where I can go look up what these tricks are?  I'd rather not have to wait until I'm emailed back from Smith Micro to find out how to fix this problem.  It's already taken 6 hours to get Poser 8 to just open up for me.  I've been using Poser since Poser 5 and I've never had this much trouble getting an edition of the program to work.  I had Poser 7 running with my 50gb Poser 6 Runtime almost immediately when it first came out.