Quote - i am thinking that maybe i will make a duplciate figure in the figures runtime. with changed material zones. so that when i already in poser have only 3 material zones for limbs,torso and head.

That's what I've done since Gen 3 (I don't use all materials most of the time) I loaded the mesh obj in UVmapper then merged all the materials that use the same mapping  and saved as a coppy then edited the cr2 reference to te obj and the materials definitions, I've done this with almost with all the characters with useless mats for me.

By the way I think I've seen a Figure to prop python script somewere, but don't remember, I'll look for it if I find it then I'll post it here :-)