Finally was able to solve the problem. I guess the stumbling block was when I originally installed poser. I had the option for optimum performance (used to multi user computers) or traditional installation (which had the best backwards compatibility.) I installed for ultimate performace, and being my laptop was brand new and I was using poser 8 I thought it would be fine, but evidently it was creating problems with loading stuff. I deleted poser and all its files, reinstalled everything for traditional installation, then loaded all my stuff again (loaded everything into program files) and it worked fine.