Thanks hborre, extremely good of you to take the time to post all the pics, much appreciated!

Today I will unfortunately out and away from my pc until tonight, so I'll give it a go then and let you know how things go. Seems relatively simple now that you've posted the steps. I did load V3 into the workspace already yesterday, and I saw some dials over on the right side but don't remember accessing/opening the Properties panel from the dropdown menu, as there were already some dials on the right, just  didn't see any of the extra dials. Gonna try your step by step and I'm sure I'll get it right. btw, do you use PoserPro2010 or a different version?

I was having problems with PoserPro2010 loading and running very slowly yesterday, even crashed a couple of times, but has not happened since. I'm exploring whether I need to update my video card's drivers, could possibly be the culprit, although my other programs seem fine, so I'm wondering if there are some settings in poser that might be draining video resources.