none of them are trashed.

when the copying idea didnt work I abandonded that idea and just uncluded the p6 runtime as an external in p7 and above.

I've since then (few years ago) wiped my computer back to its origional factory state and reinstalled all versions of poser so none of the files should be screwed up by that initial copying process at this point.

and by "the multiple runtimes problem" I mean that Im assuming im not the only person who has mutliple runtimes and was asking if there's a better way to do it than what I described above.

I've heard in the past that loading things from an external runtime or an older poser version (things that are not installed in the version you have open) can sometimes cause problems with certain products and this seems to be the issue im having.

just wondering if there is a fix or a better way.