Quote - > Quote - Acadia, my problem is the white around the figure does not show up in poser in the preview or the render. My problem is When I save it as a PNG and then open it in PSP and add a new layer behind the figure layer.

Yes, that's right. The reason for it is because of antialising. A bit of the background colour bleeds into the figure causing the border you see. It happens with all images and all background colours.  
You were rendering over light grey, which meant that the light grey was bleeding into the image you were rendering, so it left a 1 or 2 pixel border of grey around you image.

So when I add the black background and change the setting to Render over black , if I am understanding that should not happen.
I have followed the instructions to set the setting to render over blace and changed the background to black with the same results.
Am I still missing something here????

Sorry for being so thick headed but I have tried everything suggested to me.
:<(
Becky