Rayray,
You know, just for kicks, I took the XP compatibility off Bryce 4 and started it up.  It worked, but it still can't see th .OBJ files I've saved through Windows 7.  Windows 7 doesn'nt still doesn't see them either.  I've already made Bryce 4 the default program for opening new .OBJ files, and they have the little Bryce 4 icon on them now, but when I click on them, nothing happens.  I just noticed something though.  The old .OBJ file icons from done by my old computer are showing the Bryce 4 icon, but the new (invisible) ones show the Bryce 4 icon with a little padlock at the bottom.  All hidden files and file extensions are being shown, and I'm running everything as the administrator.

bobbystahr,

Thank you for your recommendation, but I don't want to break the objects/figures up into their material zones.  I want to break them up into individual parts.  As an example, say I import a Poser figure into Bryce and the figure is washing dishes.  With individual  parts, I can assign all the finger parts and both hands a different bump map and greater specularity to simulate wet hands while leaving the  rest of the body "dry".  But if the body is fused as one material group, the figure's going to have to be all wet, or all dry.  Unless I make a specularity map, but that's more work.  I think I'll try saving the figure as "unwelded" from Poser and see if Bryce 5 does anything different.