Acadia had a thread purely for beginners but it was obv an earlier version of poser. 

I'm in a poser yahoo group which are very good at helping beginners. The group is poser101  just go to groups and searc poser 101. TheN look in the tutorialsection and also the file section. There are tutorials there on setting up your runtime. Basically everything a beginner needs to know. You must join the group first though. 

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