LOL. Well put, JAG. People forget that this is an open forum for questions, complaints, directives.

Gone are the days--and I'm talking about the MetaCreations/Poser 3+ days--when the founding fathers included a substantive, doorstop-size guide to the software right there in the ol' box. (sigh) But we know there's a pretty strong likelihood that a 3rd party, P8 users guide tome is already in the works, ripe for release any day now. (Think Kelly Murdock's Official e frontier Guide for Poser 7)

In the meantime, go on, install. Yeah, there are annoying additions, like the library layout or external runtime install problems, but those pains-in-the-tush are already being dealt with for the SR1. However, the new indirect lighting feature is a hell of a lot of fun to play around with and the results can be pretty amazing.

You're right. It ain't Photoshop. But who among us is?