I used EZ Skin on the render I'd posted. The reason I wanted to use VSS again was that I'd taken a LOT of time to create a template skin that rendered precisely as I wanted it to render, and I'm struggling to duplicate that effort with EZ Skin . . .

Since I couldn't get VSS to work, I used Robyn's method of stripping all the extra joint morphs out of my old V4 figure, saving it, running the script using the .CR2 file for that figure from my runtime, and it appears this method has successfully transformed V4 and also saved my template skin.

Whew!