I submitted that to the Poser 5 wishlist some time ago. Hopefully it will happen. Perhaps Metacreations never envisioned the number of poses/characters that whould be available or maybe it was a compromise for easy PC/Mac compatibility I don't know. The answer, as you say is simple, clicking on poses should bring up a standard file/open dialog or a treeview ala P3DO with thumbnails.

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