I wouldn't swear to it but I think Poser's 3DS import is also somewhat less than perfect at times with textures. Your best bet (other than the above sugestion about locatin of texture files) is to use obj format whenever possible with poser. If the program doesn't export obj then converting from 3DS to obj first would be an option. Once you have an obj file, you can always use UVMapper to handle any texturing problems.

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