I have several versions of poser, but find the old P4 the most simple to use.  I remember once... long, long ago... there was a quick fix for the infuriating habit of P4 to not keep the poses of the figures in saved files.  The file would be fine when it was saved, but when one tried to reopen it, the figure would be back in either a basic pose, or in a position only vaguely resembling the final product.

Does anyone happen to have this?  I could move back to P6, but truly dislike the interface.

Never encountered this, unless you're referring to what happens when you apply a pose to a figure with IK enabled.

All you'd need to do is switch IK off.

Actually, a couple of other possibilities spring to mind...

Pose is for another figure?

Pose is a partial pose?

Failing the above, I have no idea at all. 

LOL yeah, I'm afraid P4 is so long ago for most folks that few will remember it's particular quirks.   Thought it would be worth asking, though.  Shows how long it's been since I've been to good ol' Renderosity (haha)

The problem isn't with a pose function.  It's with the save.  Somehow, when a scene is "opened", the figure's pose information is gone.  Very strange.  Oh well.  Guess I'll have to pull out the newer version and play around with it.  Just hate having to move all those Runtime folders over... (bah!).

Are you referring to .pz3 scene files? I don't remember any specific problems other than a tendency for them to get corrupted at times. Does it happen all the time or with certain figures/poses or what? I don't save a lot of scene files in P4 but I don't recall this problem - either the work or (if corrupt) they don't. My understanding is that you can just link the runtimes in P6 - haven't heard about linking them over a network if they're on another machine but that might work as well.

I think there was/is something about certain positional data not being saved in a pose if you moved the figure using the hip or not using the hip whatever - it escapes me. Don't know if that applies to .pz3s or not. At any rate, the Poser 4 user's group meets in the sub-basement - use the secret knock :-)

I may not remember what I had for breakfast yesterday, but I used Poser 4 for many years and I do remember that. However I don't remember ever seeing this error, and I must have saved hundreds of scenes.

One explanation comes to mind - if you accidentally jog the animation slider, and do your posing on frame 2, say, when you reopen the scene it will show frame 1 and the figure will be back in the default pose.  Of course all you need do is scroll forward until you find the frame where the figure is posed correctly.

This is actually a useful tip which gives you a multi-level undo even in P4: just advance the frame number by one every time you're happy with what you have, but want to try something new.

It still catches me out in Poser 6 when I open a scene that has a cloth simulation in it, and everything on frame 1 is at first positions. :)