"Thanks for that explanation. If rigging isn't a problem, I guess Poser automatically recreates the parts from the donor cr2 when you turn the obj. into a figure...?"

If it can find the grouping info in the object file, yes it does.

Up to PP-2014 you could export the object file from a figure, morph or otherwise change it, re-import it, enter the SetUp room, click on the original cr2 and you'd have a fully working figure again, morphs and all in a few seconds.

Now the morphs are merely projected to allow morph transfer between different meshes. Works for clothing, but the quality of the projection isn't good enough to copy a figure's own morphs back into its cr2. (Most noticeable with headmorphs)

So you have to manually copy them.

As for groups: You can use auto-group in the SetUp room, which works quite well, but if the object already was a Poser figure, Poser should have no problem re-using the original groups.