Quote - This is the best I could do after three hours of fiddling with settings. Can't wait for translation of VSS material settings!

Well, not to say that it doesn't look good, I just want to point out that the skin still looks a bit flat. Are you still using matte as the material type or have you switched over to matte translucent? In either case, you may want to consider mixing matte translucent with glossy material and it'll make the skin a bit more vibrant. Plus, adding a bump map texture set to .1 or so will help it to not appear so smooth.

As an example (or a poorly made one at that), here's something from one of my LuxRender experiments earlier in the year. Granted, it's grainy as all hell, but my hardware is pretty much by comparison to most of the people in this thread. Would have posted the image directly, but it seems that the forums are not allowing me to do so. >_<