Thank you all so much. I have it rigged properly now and it works great. I think what really threw me off is that changing the orientation of the origin is done the way that it is in your examples. I could swear that in an earlier version of Poser, the joint editor window had xrot, yrot and zrot erc dials to adjust the orientation of the origin.

It never seemed like it was this difficult before. Thanks again for being part of such a robust and helpful community

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