jancory, you were absolutely right. The body parts must have the exact mix of lower and capital letters as the internal names. For some reason they used NO caps in the parts that are not symmetrical pairs, and incorrectly capped the A in ForeArm. And They didn't bother to spell out Shoulder, but chose Shldr instead. Logical and consistent, the people who coded Poser are not. Thank you for solving a frustrating problem.

darkedge, you were right as well. When parented props are saved singly, the parenting is preserved. When saved as a group, Poser changes the parenting of all but one to Universe. It must be changed back in a text editor... with the exact eccentric spellings and capitalizations of the internal names.

So many important things about Poser are undocumented, but must be discovered by trial and error... and word of mouth.