AmbientShade,

"but she's just too damned ugly and awkward for me to stare at"

My god, she is just a mesh that can be molded into anything. And this said of you who are supposed to be a pro and master of Maya and all!

I'll tell you what is the best way to vendorhood for you. Make the outfit for Dawn and transfer it to DS with a simple export/import. Well inside DS you can morph it into a V6 garment with a clone, which take 10 min to make (a onetime operation). All morphs and parameters setting will come through. Sell it and be happy. In this way you make cloth for V6 by working in Poser to 95%.

And, as a by-product, you also have a Dawn version which you can do what you want with.