To play devil's advocate here, "minimum system requirements" is a greatly misunderstood phrase... It is not the minimum that a piece of software will work under, it is the minimum it was tested on and that tech support are supposed to help people with... According to that, the moment the support guy found out that you were trying to run Poser 5 on a machine that was 50 Mhz slower than the minimum, he/she was most likely required to cut you off...
As for everything that CyberStretch pointed out... I don't even know where to start with all that, and am curious how CL is going to spin it...