Well I'll be damned! All the Poser 4 scenes I've done and I never experienced this! I just now opened Poser 4, and there it was! One big difference though... with Poser 5 it starts deforming at around 16 degrees of rotation and gets progressively worse as 180 degrees is approached. CL has accepted this as a bonafide problem. Sure hope they get this fixed in their "patch", as it's really ugly. Thanks to all for your insights, Buck