Not meaning to pee in the pool, but have you considered doing this: just after you open Poser, delete the Poser 2 guy, go up to: Edit/General preferences and set this as your preferred state and tell Poser to open with your preferred state. And to open to previous state. Not having any figure - Poser opens faster and you do not have to delete the default guy every time. If you always use the same figure, you can set it to open with that one already there. You can change lights, camera focal lengths, the way a render is saved - new window etc. shadow values . Then save as preferred state. The color thing - I think if a geometry does not have a defined color or texture in the cr2, Poser will assign a random color to it. If a cr2 in the library has no materials blocks then when it opens - it does this when it writes them.