ockham,

Thanks for the confirmation that this is a Poser issue.  Its a very peculiar bug.  Playing around with the limits of the bug I found that I could add a one sided square from the Poser primitives props folder and scale it down to 0% so that it is invisible but for some reason because of its presence in the scene it enables the proper rendering of my key prop.  Strange indeed.

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