@Allstero - Thanks for the tip.  Following your advice this is the work around that I've come up with.

I loaded a Poser primitive sphere and scaled it down and moved it into a position inside of the rocking chair so it is hidden from rendering.  I took the sphere into the setup room and turned it into a figure.  I then parented the rocking chair to the figure and saved it as a smart prop.  The user can now either just load the rocking chair prop into a scene from the prop folder if it is going to remain a static prop in their scene or they can load the rocking chair "guide" from the figure folder and then load the rocking chair smartprop if they want to retain the rocking action after the rocking chair has been moved around their scene.  

Not a perfect solution but it works.  I think this approach would be easier, and less work, on the end user than having them load their own primitive prop guide and go through all the parenting/placement/visibility steps themselves.

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