If that's the case then the fault was with the version of Poser used or a combination of something that caused an absolute path to be written.  To write a MAT, it piggy-backs an MC6.

Edit: Does not happen in 2014.  I had explicitly had to write something to do it in the current version because it happens when image maps are swapped out (not in Poser, per se, but via python).  If I had known at the time, it would have been fixed in the previous version but I never experienced that by the way that my content is organized.  Need to know to fix it ;)

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