About zeroing, Keep in mind that the underlying OBJ for the character is the zeroed figure. If you build your confomring clothing around that OBJ then your clothing will be zeroed in the proper place. Now create the CR2 for the conformer and you can actually still start with the changes in the characters CR2. In other words the hip for the conformer can still be set to the .010 setting just like the original character. When you tell poser to conform it, the hip will be changed to reflect the setting in the character. If you didn't change the defualt pose this 'changes' the hip of the conformer to .010, essentially making no change. Move the hip of the character to .015 and the hip of the conformer will move to .015. So you see, you don't have to start with a zeroed conformer, you just need to make sure that the zero values for both the conformer and the character will place the items in the same location. This means modelling the clothing item around the original character OBJ and not from an exported copy of it.