Hmm, that's odd.  I know many of the items in my collection have outright wrong path statements for textures, but so long as Geometry files are in the proper location things load fairly quickly - with Deep Search on.  Using Poser 7 here, Windows 7 with Poser installed at the root directory - C:Poser 7.

Can you confirm your Poser installation?  Where did you install the program?  I'm wondering if there is a file protection thing going on with your installation.  I haven't come across anyone else having this problem.  Windows 7 does NOT play well with programs that read/write to C:Program Files.

I DO pay special attention to where files are to be placed on my system and have four - six working runtimes.

Anyone else having problems with Deep Search on?

Seems like this is something we should be able to work through and sort it out.