A shame that the first reply to a technical question is about copyright; a testimony to our Times, I guess.

I don't know if the SL avatars have Inverse Kinematics, and I don't have time but look right now, but here is an article about setting IK chains up in Poser...

http://www.awn.com/vfxworld/poser-7-revealed-use-inverse-kinematics

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