I was able to get the data from the cylendar primitive from Poser7 after I ran the matmatica compiler. But for anything else I got vebrose 1 then end, on other models, including v4, and the day Dress by 3dage, I then went into notepad ++ opened the skinvue python script and had a look over of it, I even went as far as trying to change some of the values in coding to resemble the material zones in the object, but ran into a bunch of syntax errors, corrected what I did until I started getting cross from being in the editor for a long stretch of time, back and forth.

To answer your questions...

1.) I did try to utilize the python, but only got it to only read a poser primitive. the version I dled was 1.3.0, the one which will work for Poser 7.

2.) I went through the Poser Place tutorial PDF you posted and tried to reassemble the same style of python script, based upon daytime dress as you made replacing idlers pumps.

3.) The mat zones are: "DressFront","DressBack","SkirtEdge","NeckEdge",DressSleeveR","SleeveEdgeR",DressEdgeL",SleeveEdgeL":

4.) Dark Materials found here: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/pd-dark-poser-materials/90958

5.) As for sharing the code, I scratched the first one and will go back and redo it after rereading the tutorial you did. That I will post for you on here when I redo it. As for the other code I worked on was a dirivative of skin vues script and can't be shared, but I think I might have goofed that one up as well, with the syntax errors, but yeah am up for sharing the code that I do from the tutorial you posted, no problem.

Not really good at coding about as much experiance was butchering Hello World, and a little SL codes, but other than that still very new to it. But up to learn it though.