Well; Thank you all but after reading through these replies I am definitely none the wiser in getting the results that I want with Poser's Animation and it is fast looking like a lost cause.

I am sure there are some nasty bugs with it and from what others say here, these problems have been with it for some time and are never likely going to be put right.

So my question is this: having already aquired a library of V4 and M4 stuff from DAZ3D and some things here at Renderosity, what other package could I use that will help me to achieve some good animation with these figures and get the results that I can't seem to get with Poser?