importing as FBX did not work apparently, there is a list in the "groupings" menu of about 100 polygroups but there is nothing visible on the stage. I know people build models in Maya and sell them for use in Poser, so this should be a very simple thing to accomplish. Is there an extra step somewhere?

We need the figures rigged in Maya, then imported into Poser for animation. This is what i'm getting- as you can see import FBX did not load any visible geometry, even though the figure is rigged perfectly in Maya and works just fine there.