Quote - Lesson one is installing content.  I begin to wonder whether the person I'm assisting is mentally deficient, or whether I am simply the worst instructor ever. 

Poser had a very steep learning curve for me, and a major obstacle was its content  management, aka library system. It is a terrible, awful, bad, very bad, very-very bad, horrible, terrible (did  I say that already), big stinkin' mess. It makes a certain amount of sense if you go back to the early days of Poser, but for someone just now getting into it, it makes no sense at all. Why is there no hair in the Hair directory? Why are the textures for an outfit completely separated from the outfit? What are all those things doing in the Pose directory that have nothing to do with poses?

I come from a hi-tech background and I've taught applications in the past. IMO, one mistake that a lot of trainers and user guides make is trying to justify every part of a system. Sometimes it's best to just say that while a certain app is, in general, a very fine app, some parts of it just suck. That helps to limit the self doubt that comes with learning complex systems like Poser. I wouldn't spend much time trying to explain Poser's content management to your student. It's just not worth it.

The good news is that, for the most part, you can organize your content any way you like, and that seems to be what most of us end up doing. There are lots of threads on this because it's such a frequently asked question. Maybe it should be a sticky.

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OS: Windows 10 64-bit, Poser: 10