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I just upgraded Poser 7 to Poser 2012 for $129.99 in the half off sale. 

If you are going to create content, Poser 2012 is definitely the way to go.  Poser 9 doesn't allow you to create weight mapped items - just use them.

From another post (the half off link):

http://my.smithmicro.com/marcom/eblasts/poser/20120303/index-web.html

OT: Thank you for this link! You just saved me $125 bucks, as I almost bought it last night for $249. Tricky, they are not advertising this price on their main site. 

Finally I've entered the 2012 realm of Poser. So much to learn from P7...