I have a poser scene and it contains a wrestling ring, the V4 black lotus, michael 4 and the freak.  When I import it into carrara 8 pro it only contains black lotus with NO clothes on and no ring and no ropes or floor etc...any ideas?  Thank you.

When you click file>import> and you select the poser file, a menu comes up. Do you click anything in that menu?

It already has the following clicked

import morph targets

import animation

import deformers

import camera and lights

Okay..now where I am is I can now import the ring..but Black Lotus is in a corner and all her clothes are in the center of the ring..also her hair is over her face...funny thing is that the scene imports perfectly in Maya.

Since nobody's said this yet, I guess I'll be the first: You're much better off putting the entire scene together in Carrara alone; cutting Poser out of the process completely :)
Technically Carrara hasn't supported the import of Poser scenes since either Poser 5 or 6; I first noticed issues whenever Poser Pro first came out. Poser content however is fully supported; just point Carrara to your Runtimes and you're good to go.
Another issue may be that Carrara isn't finding all of your Runtime paths; a common issue if you're using an external drive.
Also, after your Poser scene imports, you may need to re-conform clothes, hair, etc. Sometimes advancing Carrara's timeline to frame 2 fixes the issue as well.
Either way, you should at least try putting a simple scene together entirely in Carrara and see how it feels :)

Thank you.  This is just weird as it worked before.