Sorry, I don't normally rant but I'm ROYALLY POed at a product bug that should have been caught in Alpha testing, certainly in beta testing at the latest but still exists not only in a released product but one that has gone through a  few service releases.
Most items that I post are suggestions to others not rants.

I do now have a ticket open with Smith Micro.

I guess it's a work around or nothing for the moment.  Does anyone know if doing the posing in P7 then importing the scene into P8 and doing lighting and rendering would work?  Will P8 find the items in the folders labeled with a ? in that case or will it give you a message telling you that it can't find the object or objects?  Seems a bit counter productive since they touted the new library handling as a feature.