All of those porgrams are out of my price-range.  Even Shade Pro is a bit steep, but I would still buy it if it addressed my needs.  Carrara 9 has been announced for Q4/Q1, but I have been down that road already once before...

I guess I was never clear on which programs import Poser scenes/figures and which ones host them.  I'd assumed hosted content might not allow the full range of modification a program allows for native content, and imported content would not reflect changes made later to the original content within Poser.

(I've never understood why Poser doesn't have some kind of soft-bodys, even a hack would be better than nothing.  I always imagined that they could work like magnets and waves do, as spherical zones with inner and outer falloff, but with an elasticity of movement relative to their parent object.  I was surprised again that PoserPhysics did not attempt to provide this functionality.)