(Let me know if you guys want me to stop talking about hair.  I'm just putting it here as general information for whenever someone wants to look at it - but I don't want it to needlessly clutter up the thread, so if there's a better time, I'll collect my info in silence, for now. )

There's really no documentation on hair.  There's only one forum topic I've found so far addressing it specifically, and it's heavily Blender-biased: http://www.luxrender.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=3864

 So I'm growing hair on primitives in Blender, trying to find the right strand thickness to where it will most resemble Poser's default.  Blender's default seems to be a bit finer.  At least the forum topic answered one of my questions: the hair will accept the standard materials.  Right now all I'm getting is dark hair, but I think that's because the strands are too thin to see the color correctly.  And so I fiddle.

One more thing: the object that the hair is being grown on, does not show up in the render.  That could be a problem, for fur, or anything where the hair is growing directly on the figure, rather than a skullcap or the like.  :

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currently using Poser Pro 2014, Win 10