Quote - Where are you saving? Both WIndows 7 and Vista are very reluctant to let you place files in the Program Files (or Program Files (x86)) folders - instead, any attempt to write to those folders is shunted to UsersYouAppDataLocalVirtualStorepathyouweretryingtosaveto. AppData is a hidden folder, so if that is what is happening you will need to enable the display of hidden files and folders in the Folder Options applet in Control Panel (or just save to a location outside Program Files).

Interesting stuff:
First, I looked again at the folder the OBJ files were supposed to be in (Bryce 5.5 directory).  I'd already enabled all files visible in the folder options so I assumed that all files would be visible.  Then I saw the "Compatibility Files" option at the top of the Bryce 5.5 folder.  I clicked it, and many more files appeared, including the OBJ files.

So Windows 7 could see them.  Honestly, I'm not getting the concept of having to do something to see all files when All Files Visible is enabled already.  But at least there's a way for me to see that Windows 7 really does see files I've saved.

That option is not present in the Bryce 4 file dialog though, so that still meant that Bryce 4 could not access the files I now knew were there.  My next step was to disable the UAC completely.  I restarted the computer, launched Bryce 4 and looked in the file dialog, and there were the OBJ files...visible.

To test things, I made a new OBJ file in Poser 7 and saved it.  Bryce 4 could see it.  You'd think things were fine now, right?  I launched Poser 7 again, and for some reason it asked for my serial number and the serial number of a previous version of Poser.  Why?  My Poser 7 install was not an upgrade.  Is this because I chose to run it as an administrator?  And why all of a sudden?  Anyway, I looked high and low for my old Poser 4 serial number, but couldn't find it and finally decided to copy my runtime to an external hard drive, uninstall Poser 7, and do a clean reinstall.  The setup disc, which ran perfectly last week when I loaded Poser 7 onto the new computer, would not work.  I ended up copying the entire contents of the setup disc onto my external  hard drive and installing it again.  Then I copied over the runtime I'd saved previously.  It seemed to have worked, but now whenever I launch Poser 7 and try to save a file, it crashes.  I'll deal with that later.  I have Poser 8 and added Poser 7's runtime to it anyway.

I then went back to make sure that Bryce 4 could still see the OBJ files after disabling the UAC.  Now, it could not, even though I verified again that the UAC was disabled.  I was ready to cry and break things, but decided to continue with the suggestions all of you have given.  The first thing I did was direct Bryce 4's "Import" file dialog to the User/Me/App Data/Local folder where I found a duplicate Programs(x86) directory there.  I looked inside the appropriate folders there, and there, in all their glory, plain as day, were all the OBJ files I'd made and searched for.

While looking for more of an explanation about the Compatibility Files option in Windows 7's help option, I found yet another blurb about permissions, but what was really interesting was the mention of the Public files and how they were "open to all".  As a test, I saved a new OBJ file to my Public Documents file and then went into Bryce 4 to look for it.

There it was.

I'm still at a loss for the permissions problems when everything should have been ok.  I still might try to turn the UAC on again slightly and see if the OBJ files in the User/Me/App Data/Local folder and the Public Documents folder are visible to Bryce 4.  And I still don't understand Poser 7's weird behavior, but at least I can do what I need to do now.

To all of you...Thank You for all your input.  It's nice to know you're here.