*@richardson: deleting all lights and adding just one makes no difference.*

OK just to be clear. Lights will not make a difference because you do not have the shader that is loaded on that figure. The shader defaults to 0 on all settings giving you black...

Did it have an effect on Left spotty figure?

 

Can you put up the lights parameters? Both pages? Perhaps light bias is borked. Maybe a pref problem (meters vs inches)

 

I had mucho problems installing Poser 7. I had these problems. Just cannot remember the fixes. It is stable once you get all in place, though.