this is supposed to be fixed in the update of ppp..go get it if you havent. explanation to what is happening follows (as it was explained to me): OBJ files are given groups within their text files indicated by g groupname in many instances the obj file from poser does not always have this but has g this can cause a few things to happen in ppp directly (the notorious holes in the mesh around the hip and waist) or in export (the crash in other programs). ever noticed when you open a file in uv mapper exported by poser it has a blank group at the top? When you export and reopen it, that blank group is gone. update your PPP with the patch ;) BT