Sorry, I've been off on a video shoot and just got back in town and found these messages waiting for me.

It turns out that the was a problem in the mesh of the towers.  The  vendor sent me a new tower and I replaced the old towers with this new version and everything works perfectly.  I guess Poser could work around the problem, but Vue didn't like the old tower construction.

I still had to go through a mountain of resizing textures and adjusting settings, but the towers are fixed and were not a Vue problem at all.