Yeah, a lot of .obj importing and exporting going on here as well...  When an SR comes out that I can trust isn't going to A) change the way my existing projects look when rendered or B) break anything that already works (specifically things related to my current projects), I will eagerly install it. 

I bought Poser GD and haven't even authenticated it because so far no release has met my two above criteria for installing.  "Update" may normally be good advice, but the reality is that there's at best a slim chance it will fix my problem and far more likely it will do more harm than good.  Sadly, I wouldn't advise anyone ever update Poser if they are in the middle of a project.

When I went from Poser 8 to PP2012, something had changed causing my mapped shadows to render completely different/wrong.  I was lucky that I had just completed one set of clips and the remainder of my contracted work used a different camera position.  I was finally able to get acceptably similar shadows by switching to ray traced shadows, but that would not have worked had I upgraded a month earlier (as all of the clips had to match seamlessly in editing).