Thanks everyone.  primorge, making figures for previous versions of Poser always seemed to be a disappointment to me.  I was never satisfied with the bending of the joints.  They looked okay with slight bends but beyond that they started looking pretty bad.  One could improve the bending with JCMs, extra bones, and so forth, but I could never get it good enough.  Weight-mapping, or polygon-smoothing as I would prefer to call it, changed everything.  The results are so much better that I can't imagine going back and doing it the old way.  Weight-mapping as well as gamma correction was like discovering Poser all over again.