I haven't actually stopped collecting information or re-reading anything. However, for the past 3 to 4 weeks, I've literally felt like I've had both my feet dangling in my grave. And when I wasn't feeling half-dead, I wasn't feeling up to snuff much to be experimenting. Still not.

However, as for your basic material's settings, that already exists. PhilC has some material settings all worked out , but it's currently broken in Poser 11. (May be a Python thing.) Works in earlier versions of course, and you can manually enter the settings in P11.