Thanks to everyone for their suggestions. I like the hair control idea. The current hair has magnets but they're tricky to use.

My problems seems to be a generic Poser problem. There is another recent discussion about dynamic clothes that seems to reflect a similar problem;ie poser meshes are not aware of each other. Even dynamic clothes have problems with the poser figure mesh. Arms and legs also are not "aware" of each other.

In my naive mind, I would like the poser meshes/figures to be solid objects that are aware of each other and would therfore know when another object "bumps" into them. I guess there are a ton of 3d calculations to make this come true.  Maybe in a future version? I think zbrush has solid 3d objects and when you move a zsphere it will not penetrate another zsphere.

So I pose the figure and then fix the hair...That'sthe way to solve the intersecting problem. Every time the pose changes, the hair may have to be changed too. I was hoping for an easier, generic solution. No big deal, one more thing to play with.

Mike