*There is, it's called Poser Pro

• I Just took another look at the ad, " Get the most out of your hardware and leverage your network to render massive scenes using the network render queue." as far as i can tell, no details on how it works anywhere on the site, so you might have to buy the extra render engines...I'm not asking anyone to tell me if you do, it's just strange in a bad way that they don't just tell potential customers about that little detail. I've also heard that the 64-bit processing works well, and there was something about GPU support.
  I'll look into it some more, but I might not wait until 2010; might not be a good upgrade price from Poser 6 for 2010.

"I stopped using it, for me it didn't deliver the increased render speeds promised in Vue6"

Not having Vue6 I can't really say, but Vue 5 rendering on 4 machines is at least 4 times faster than Poser 6 rendering on 1 machine, if set to similar resolution settings; is 6 that much slower than 5?
Having been burned buying Poser 3 & 5, I'm strictly on the even numbered poser purchase rule; hearing that Poser 8 will make GOOD use of multicore hardware is good news. I assume Poser Pro 2010 will be the pro version of Poser 8; makes sense.
Thank you for the good info.