Arrow1 Your description is pretty detailed - thanks for that as it really helps to visualize the problem as a whole. You're working too hard, actually. I always unzip into a D:Temp folder with stuffit expander, which also maintains the directory structure. The unzipped folder will normally have a Runtime folder. Sometimes it's nested a few layers deep, sometimes right on top. In Windows Explorer, I RIGHT-CLICK on this Runtime folder, and drag it into my Poser4 folder, where my "real" runtime folder is and click "Move to" in the pop-up menu that appears when I release the button there. This usually gives me an error message that there's already a runtime folder there. I click okay, that it's not a mistake, ("yes to all" button) and all the files and folders are transferred properly into poser's folder structure. Start poser, find the figure, & make sure it loads all right. This works for me 99.2% of the time. That's the basic method. Before transferring, I usually read the ReadMe in case of some wierd peculiarities, like needing another product installed first before the new one will load properly into poser (if it's a Victoria character, it won't load unless I already have Victoria installed, Some superheroes from 3D-CC won't load unless certain boots or capes from another artist are already installed, some characters are distrib with a pcb that needs to be decoded/installed instead of a real OBJ in the geometries folder, etc. etc. etc. ...), and I also look over the contents of any texture folders, looking for anything like BlablablaBUM.jpg, convert it into a bmp file, and rename the bmp to bum so poser won't choke on it, but that's just my preference. Later, when I'm sure the character loads okay, I may re-arrange the cr2's, hr2's, pz2's, etc into my existing folder structure, but then I always COPY it first, & make sure it loads okay from there before deleting the original folder. I have downloaded characters that were actually hard-coded to only open if the CR2 was in a specific folder, but those were older P3-based files, & I've never seen it in anything new. Hope I understood you trouble correctly, And that my comments help you. . . Good Luck!