Thanks Boudicca and all, I very much expect your right. I did recover to DAZ 4.7 but I had to uninstall the PostgreSQL to do it; I expect a manual reinstall of DIM will be necessary to get 4.9 working as you indicated; I'll have to read up on just how to do that, but it cant be that hard.

For now at least I've got the studio working well enough to create the base image I wanted to port over to Manga Studio. A friends Yahoo Group is Studying Amaterasu just now and I wanted to do a close up of a larger image of that goddess, but the original is too distant for any detail. So I have posed my "Claudia" Character in the pose of the Goddess in the Source image with Daz to I can layer them and recover some detail. I think it will be a good image and will link the results later.

TY all for your help Troubleshooting. I am still thinking I need to find a useful Alternative, maybe try Poser Debut again. Sick of loosing two days work everytime I upgrade this program to the inevitable debugging battle. BB.