well..WOOOOOHOOOOOOOO and thank you Crescent!! I have been at this for hours and hours and hours today and wow....now that i got it..thanks to you...its very simple after all..I can't tell you how much i appreciate your help..I made the mistake of putting the cr2 and rsr files into the poser/runtime/libraries/character folder..but never made one more folder and it just wasn't showing up in my libraries at all..now that i added a new folder in that character folder named marck, there it is...and it works..it conforms to the figure as its supposed to and i can't tell you how thrilled and relieved i am..and thankful to you and everyone else who has replied and helped me with this...geesh..i do feel pretty silly right now for not having gotten that hours earlier on but i bet i'll never make that mistake again..hehe..again, thank you!!