Like hornet3d, I am guilty of being overly critical of Dawn, and for the exact same reasons. When something is hyped with a lot of marketing, it's very disappointing when your expectations aren't met. But I very much regret giving into that feeling. Definitely regret taking part in the feeding frenzy that followed her release. Wiz, you're absolutely right. There's no need to be publicly critical of someone else's work unless they've specifically asked for that criticism. We don't go around telling people, "Yes, ma'am, those pants really DO make you look fat" even when it's obviously true. Same applies here. :)

As for the newbie questions: I don't like to see people telling others to search the forums, unless they tell them specifically what to search for. 90% of the time the search function does not turn out relevant results for me, and I've been using it for years. When Bagginsbill says, "Search the forum for [blank] and put me in as the username" it's different because as soon as you narrow down your search that way, you actually do get meaningful results. But a broad, "Just do a search" isn't helpful to anyone.

Nor is a RTFM type response. I don't think there's anything wrong with pointing out that there is a manual for Poser because I expect a lot of people don't actually realize that. Or they don't know where to find it. 

But I think it might be better to assume that this was the last place a newbie looked for answers, rather than the first. And that they have probably already tried to Google for answers or already used the forum search, and may even have already tried to figure things out by reading the manual. But not everything is in the manual, and a lot of what you find on Google is way out of date.

I think we forget how complex and daunting things like installing content can be.

So, amen, Wiz, and I apologize as well for the grief I've caused you.

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PoserPro 2014, PS CS5.5 Ext, Nikon D300. Win 8, i7-4770 @ 3.4 GHz, AMD Radeon 8570, 12 GB RAM.