@Geep, thank you! :)

You are so right lesbentley. That was what I ended up doing, zero the hip x and z, then all was fine. It's been a while since I worked with Poser so I had forgotten this (and a lot of other things). :huh:
I needed to have it this way to be able to have a python script working which renders steps in a circle around the figure (ockham's script).