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...to the majority who is NOT having problems, it's nothing to talk about - to them, the program is just working as expected and that's hardly something you'd make a forum post about, right?

If you say so.
maybe you wouldn't, but I've seen a whole lot of posts like that in other forums, discussing other software. I've made quite a few myself for that matter, and there are at least a couple of "Yay, Poser 8 works!" posts here.
Maybe Poser users don't see a need to discuss things that are working, but people using, say, Maya, seem far more inclined to bring up subjects such as that so as to encourage the people they have to work with to feel safe to update.

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And MikeJ - I'm in no way a "blind fanboy"- if anything I'm a fanGIRL - but still

Sorry about that. Yes, I know you're a girl, what with the avatar and the user name and all that. I also have surmised you're a trekkie, even without seeing the necessary logo on your (non-com) uniform.
However, you rarely hear of fangirls, for the same reason you don't often hear of Postwomen, Maytag repairwomen, Best Girls, or womankind, and you probably won't hear a purser loudly declare "woman overboard" on a cruise liner.

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And for the record, it's NOT that I'm a "happy go lucky" kind of peep in general. Quite the contrary. But I won't bitch and whine just to be part of the chorus when I dont' have anything to bitch and whine about!

Oh and remember this post is started by someone too timid to even state their true self. I find that amusing... That poster STILL has only one post.

Maybe not, but you seem all too happy to cut down they who do have legitimate complaints, and point out that you have no problems. Which makes your posting in a complaint thread completely irrelevant and off topic, unless you're just in it to "be part of the chorus" to do your part to help lynch the people who complain.
And yes, my posting here simply to argue with you is almost just as irrelevant, but not entirely. My girlfriend bought Poser 8 and I checked it out today at her place. While I didn't see any glaring problems with it, I think I'd put it in the "ho-hum, yet another half-assed Poser release" category, if I had to state an early opinion on it.
That's not a dig at the skill of the developers or the programmers, by the way, but a dig at the people who make the decisions and write the checks for the development.

As for the OP using an alias... who cares? I don't see that as even remotely relevant, and in pointing that out, you are trying to discredit the person on a personal level.
Then again, does anybody know for sure that that person is an alias? I can't remember, and this stupid forum software makes it a pain to check earlier replies while making a quoted reply, but is it necessary to assume all long-time Poser users have had an account here for a while? There is, in fact, a first post for everyone. I don't know - maybe you managed to skip straight to post #55 or something, but for all the rest of us it doesn't seem to work that way.

That about covers it I guess. Any other completely irrelevant points you'd care to make to try to change the subject?