Hum.  Well.  What a post opener.  I never had a problem with SSS.  I just buy skins with SSS shaders made in...no problems cause I ain't getting into all that apply stuff and being advanced :)   Works best with the IDL lighting IMO.  I bought PRO2012 for a few reasons..to by some SSS shader skin characters I saw here, 64 bit support, and use the fancy lights.  (Dang sparkly make up on those models!)

Sure all those selling points were great in the promo about tweak this and add that when they rolled the program out, and Pro2012 was a super upgrade to me from 7....but I haven't a clue how to use most of them; I barely knew how to work Poser 7 LOL.  Maybe one day I'll try to learn how to do all the stuff myself, but if you want to use SSS and don't know how to do it yourself there are several very fine textures out there and a lot of them are even in the PRIME store...and they come with readme files that tell you how to set the stuff up for best results....sadly most of my works are not done with SSS as I found I prefer the less realistic look for my line of work/post work.  I still like the SSS though :)