I'm wondering if he just THOUGHT it got distributed to the various machines...

Four hours sounds like an awfully long time for a render that size with no more than he has in it, at least on my machine. I've NEVER had a render last four hours since I've had PP2010, and I usually use the Firefly render script by D3D and have the quality turned up to at least half scale!

I assume Smith Micro is working on that feature for a future release. At least, one can hope.
Heck, I'd be happy if one of the commercial render farms would bite the bullet and start handling Poser materials... there's times when I'd gladly pay for a quick render!

But enough.