Exactly.  Andy is the new 'artist's dummy' of a sort.  If he really offends, clear him from the scene and set the blank scene as your preferred launch state.  If you can in Poser Debut, in Poser 8 it is no big deal.

As to reading the manual, yes, some of us infact have... and the tutorial manual, amazingly enough something might actually be learned by cracking open that monstrous big pdf.

Why would the manual include a detailed write up on a posing dummy?  Uh, no point, if you read the rest of it, what he, and Alyson, and Ryan and everything else is for will be obvious.

Now back to reading that dreaded 'book', the new rigging system intrigues me.