Yeah Paul, you do have to buy the Vicki and/or Michael characters to make it work. Simply buying or downloading Poser Character (*.cr2) files won't do it, because they need the "bmilwom.obj" and "bmilman.obj" .obj files in a geometries folder in Poser's folder. When you first buy the millenium people, what you see is the cr2 files, but the .obj files are installed as well. The cr2 files will not work without the obj geometries in the folder it's looking for them in. Basically all those cr2 files are, are "boned" versions of the .obj models.