As one Newbie to another, JHILL, I unwittingly offended a bunch of people when I innocently (ignorantly) asked for a model to use in a Bryce scene. I was amazed and taken aback to learn that the Poser models (which are the best models, it seems) are under an extremely limiting copyright.....I was informed that I was asking someone to break the law!?! Which, of course, was the absolute opposite of what I thought I was asking, having seen figures in the Free Stuff and actually being willing to pay for a model. You might want to do what I'm doing: I got a copy of Computer Arts magazine for February, used the CD on the front to download Poser 3 (for free!) and printed out the manual. Which I am now crawling through at a snail's pace, but it is learnable.