*...Blender, it must be said, has never crashed on me, not once.

Could be re-written as "It's amazing how stable most other programs are"

*I have no intention of giving up on Poser. By now the investment (in time and money) is too great... 

Stick with it because I couldn't. Lack of stability, imprecise documentation, a dusty Runtime full of objects that were so "must have" at the time. Over time there were several small steps which started me down the dark path, but I feel that things like material room knowledge does transfer from one program to another, that math is useful (went back to city college and took Algebra, Trig and Calculus just for 3D and everything is a lot clearer) and that I'm constantly analyzing motion arcs, facial features and material properties - now can I say "that's why that looks the way it does".

I didn't have to give up the content. Most of it (except characters) still works, plus I'm a pretty fast modeler so I don't mind.