Thanks Phil,

Its a great help, problem is that all the poser rigging tutorials focus on building bones from sratch rather than usign a donor, while this might be a good idea for tops and skirts etc. its really not necessary for shoes.

Thanks for the tip in IK deltetion and I will check out your edior - although the link for the lite version dosen't seem to work.  Id like to try it out before I buy it :)

It does seem ridiculous that smith-micro have done nothing to simplify/speed up the process. Das Studio has a excellent utility for this in its figure setup, you can literally bind a donor skeleton to your object and remove unwanted bones in less than 30 seconds! Unfortunatley the Cr2 output from DS is sometimes not conforming correctly in poser. (hence why ive come back to Poser and forked out out for an upgrade to the latest version)