This twitchiness is common.  If you do a lot of animation, you see it all the
time.  When one thing changes, Poser tries to adjust several other things,
then has second thoughts and decides to leave them alone after all.

But you should check what Markschum said: sometimes a MAT pose
does include motions, perhaps accidentally copied and pasted from a
motion pose that was used as a template.

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