Thanks again for the new replies.  I'm sorry I have been so slow to say thanks I am not getting notifications from this thread and searching on this forum is...../sigh.

I come back and after about 5 minutes of looking for the thread, I'm like pee on it, I'll go do something productive lol.

I did get poserpro2012.  It feels like a whole new program to learn.  Well not so bad I suppose at least I am familiar with the controls.  But there were a few things that were not so easy.  

Like installing - I download about 10 zips with the install, no info where to put them.  Then when I install it kept telling me that it didn't find those zips.  So I tried putting them in the same folder, extracting in the same folder...etc.  Reinstalling each time.  They are obviously content, and now I see it seems I am suppose to install them after installing.  Why not say that instead of giving me an error message like I did something wrong lol.

Then I'm not sure if I'm just stuck in my old ways or if I don't like the content tab.  At least I finally found it.  I guess I do too much of my work without enough coffee.  Either way I seem to remember liking being able to see the thumbnails right to the right of what I was doing.  On the other hand maybe I will like this better once I get used to it.  

Now I have to spend time today wading through these forums, trying to learn everything about weight mapping.  Aparently that is the new 'Ambient Occlusion' (read:  the new 'OMG must have')  

As for this thread, I suppose I'm going to book mark it.  Even though it's nearly run it's course - that way I can at least be polite and respond when someone responds to me :p

I am:  aka Velocity3d