artbee-  yeah just thought it would take less time than that.  the last time i worked with poser was poser 7 and it had huge render times as well.  i would have thought it would have taken a lot less time now at 2014.  especially when machines now days are a heck of alot faster, larger graphics cards and about 10 times more RAM.  unfortunatly my good machine is back home in the states and is a true graphics machine with the i7 980 extreame, 32 Gb ram, dual 690 hydro coppers and dual 500Gb SSD's.  however I was unable to take my rig with me down range to Afghanistan so i had to settle for my Sony laptop which is not nearly as fun.  I was hoping however that it was something I was doing wrong. 

in reference to your question about "3rd setting to the last" i should have communicated better sorry.  that is the location of the render setting line in the Automatic setting in the render window..