I feel bad for anyone using Google or Bing to search for this problem... I just googled a few of the search terms I used yesterday (in both) and neither Google or Bing found this, the other threads here at Rendo, or the 3 or four other threads I started about this at other sites... That pretty much sucks for someone who doesn't visit certain forums much.

 

Is anyone else able to confirm that disconnecting from the internet will load the library?

This could work as a short term solution...

 

Edited to add- For me, on my machine I do not find any problems if I reconnect to the internet AFTER the library loads... Poser works fine as far as I see... if I shut it down though, I will have to disconnect from the internet again next time I open it, to get the library to load... 

So if you just disconnect for the loading process, you can still use the internet... I'm doing it now... and Poser is still working.