I finally broke down and bought Poser Pro 2014 (well really the Game Dev.'s version), as they finally had a great sale. Anyway, I can't believe no one has noticed this (neither users or SmithMicro personnel) after five service releases (apparently), but ... 

** The "Skip Frames" button is backwards.** When "ON" the playback of animation is smooth (i.e. it shows all of the frames). When "OFF" it is skipping frames (and thefore NOT smooth.) This is the opposite of how it should work -- and did work in all previous versions of Poser. You can verify this is occurring by watching the frame counter as well.

• Not* the end of the world, but it often baffles me how such things get "broken" in the first place. (Next check will be to see if the deleting a keyframe when using 3rd party characters, deletes the character instead of the keyframe. They NEVER did fix this is 2012 PRO, so here's to hoping.)

EDIT:  PS, I realize this could have been introduced in a recent service release I suppose.