Sorry got busy again.

I had to fall back on an older version of the scene and rebuild part of the scene. I still have tweaking to do here and there because the pose is not like the original and I am not quite satisfied with it. In the render you can see the effect I was trying to get with the deep shadows in certain areas on her body. I had originally wanted the shadows behind her as deep but i decided to make it easier to pick her out. I may still go back and make the original idea but i kind of like it this way too.

The version where i was having so much trouble may have been glitched. I say this because  while I was frustrated i changed the light in front of  her into a spotlight and no matter what i did i could not get the light to show up in preview. As I mentioned before i know that the light was not trying to shine through a wall or other scene bits.

Once I went back to the previous save the lights worked pretty much as i had intended them to. I really need a computer upgrade because  some renders take forever on this old box, at least it runs poser 7 well enough for me to do what i do when I can remember stuff. I am in my 5th year of college and time for rendering funtime where I actually feel like rendering something seems miniscule. I haven't done but maybe three or four renders in the past six months and I seem to be forgetting things that I had learned. I think I will have to find several of BB's threads and start reading and learning again.

Thanks for all the helpful ideas and advice everyone.