Animajik, you sound very serious on animation. So I would like to give you an advice. Have a look at Carrara from Daz. It blows Daz Studio away on almost anything.

I was working with Daz Studio and thought this is the best thing to work with. Because I need 3d backgrounds, I bought Bryce. But somehow I found Carrara. I am still studying it, but I now for sure, I probably never use Studio again. Carrara is so much better and very very easy to work with. It can do anything, animating, modeling, morphing, hair, 3d backgrounds, sounds and whatever. Believe me, it is amazing. And you won't need any other software probably.

Carrara 7 can import Daz scenes. Manuals are here http://artzone.daz3d.com/wiki/doku.php/pub/software/carrara/start

A trick to get it cheap: Buy the book "Figures, Characters and Avatars." Amazon 23 dollar. On the cd is Carrara 6, Hexagon 2.5, Daz 2.3 and Daz figures. Contact Daz, mail the book invoice and you get the serial codes in your account. Then you have registered full versions without limitations. I bought Carrara upgrade Pro 7 and I am so happy with this. So for 23 dollar and shipping you can have Carrara 6.