I tried re-installing SR 2.1, but to no avail. It's still happening.

Here are the rendered scenes. This is the re-creation of my original, and is basically whittled down some. But the same results.

Here is the Poser 7 render -- everything renders accordingly:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/20381395@N03/4320290636/sizes/o/

The second one is the Poser 8 render.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/20381395@N03/4319557037/sizes/o/

-- Jeff