Thanks for the suggestion.
And, unless I'm wrong, it still is required to have all the morphs present , in the first place. So again, I'll gain no advantage. Back to the drawing board.

Sorry, but that makes no sense, as I'd still have to load all the morphs. I think you have misunderstood what I was asking for, Geep.  
I just want to avoid the pain of loading in morph targets, in the first place. Sorry if I was a bit unclear. Thanks for the suggestion and tutorial.
Meanwhile, I still would like a good autoloading method  if there is one 

Thanks for the responses!
David, I have no clue how to use this as I only have the manual supplement not the manual itself.
Geep, what do you mean "use" a FBM?  You mean, turn my list (or "bunch") of morphs into a single morph to be applied all at once?  How would I do that?

Oh, cool! Before you posted this,  I was just looking at that script from your site! Thanks David!

Vista 64 works like a dream once you do those things (such as listed by ziggie above, and maybe a bit more) to get control of your own computer back. I don't have my "good" work machine internet enabled so I can completely disregard and disable all the "for my own good and security" pains in the arse. 

Secondly, for whatever it's worth my experience (and advice) is different from Gareee (with all due respect, of course):

I say, forget and abandon the molasses slow and functionally retarded Vista search function and instead install the freeware Everything Search Engine by VoidTools,  you will be very happy that you did.

That's definitely a compliment coming from you Miss Nancy (I visited your homepage and saw your super-cool stuff)!

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As you can see, it "sure don't" have to be perfect for this venue!

(BTW, I am planning on fixing the timing of the painting action by next Christmas :)
I submitted this in a huge rush to get it in time for the peak season, so please excuse and hold off on telling me about this flaw, ha ha!)

but, please also note, I won "Most Innovative Use of PhotoInside" in the hdgreetings winter holiday card contest  (& 250 USD!) with this, and it has been a pretty popular card. So...

You know what, just to clarify, I'm not sure I can state with absolute certainty what I said above about starting with someone else's work...

...but I'm pretty sure that, as long as I buy a copy of anything you want to start with, it should be perfectly fine for you to do work on it for me, if you see what I mean.
This way you aren't passing me a derivative work without the original artist getting paid, and it also means you aren;t selling a model (or derivative of) that isn't yours to sell.

Thanks for the sentiment but I'm not discouraged at all, everything is fine now and I'm doing everything I want and need to, and it's working great and looking groovy.
I've played around with Zbrush a fair amount and I fairly understand what can be done with it but I won't be going that route anytime soon. It's fun to think about, (all those cool zspheres and displacement modeling tricks, etc) but I know it ain't gonna happen, ha ha!     

Oh,and one more happy discovery: you can fine tune the scale very nicely with your x y and z scale parameters. So...problem solved! AND...etched into LONG TERM memory, this time!  Sheesh!

and, just to clarify, I was NOT scaling on import to Poser, I was leaving at 100%.

Apparently it's some of the other, "reasonable sounding" defaults that buggaboo the thing (center, make polygons consistent...whatever). Maybe it's those things in concert...who knows?

Okay guys, here's the skinny, and please feel free to chastise me once you learn the gruesome truth. Remember when I said I did it successfully before, so I knew it was a little thing?

Okay, it turns out that I actually answered my own question on another forum (DAZ)  last december,  and STILL forgot what the answer was this time around. It turns out that you just need to untick EVERYTHING in the options when you import the .obj file into Poser. 

Now, when you do that, the head will be HUGE, but then you can scale down (with some crudeness, see below), and the morphs work just fine :)

weirdly, changing the export scale in FG doesn't change anything...it will still come in with the same "hugeness" in Poser...I'm not happy about that, but I'll take what I can get at this point. The problem is in accuracy, once you're down to the single digits (4% is roughly the size of a poser head) you can only be 4 or 5, not 4.5.., so your dealing with.like 20% increments if you see what I mean.     

So, I'll pester FG support a bit and see what's going on with the scale thing but for now I am a happy, (and apparently prematurely senile at age 49), camper.

Hey you gotta understand, I'm juggling a lot of stuff... 

kind regards, kids!

=E

svdl, UVMAPPER sounds like a great suggestion I will have to look into that !

Quote: First of all, you have to have the Customizer in order to use FG with other models***.

Sure, but I'm not using FG with other models!
I'm using FG models. I'm pretty sure, that sort of makes pretty much everything you just so interestingly and helpfully put forth... based on a moot point. Thank you, though, and apologies if I have misunderstood you. It's definitely not my intention to be dismissive of the good info, and effort you are putting out to help me.  

Listen everyone, I will update you when I get to the bottom of this, I promise.
The following summary may help us really understand what's happening:

Facegen is a package made especially for exactly what I am doing. I am not using another package, including Customizer, nor should I need to. This process (FG to Poser, with morphs)  has worked fine before for me, at least once, (and I can prove it ha ha! with a poser file on my machine, an FG generated head of Clint Eastwood with all the morphs, working perfectly, done by myself)  and so strange as it may sound I have confidence that the fix is some little thing, I (or we) just gotta find it (again). With my memory, I should take better notes :)

The head models are made entirely and automatically by FG. The neutral expression and all the morphs are always based on the exact same mesh, the vertices are always the same order.  I am only bringing into Poser, nothing out of Poser, ever.  And nothing into Facegen, ever.    
Thank you all very much for your input! Ain't learnin' fun?

DarkEdge, I appreciate your help, and what I wrote may have sounded too "edgy", given that it's written to people who ARE just trying to help, but I didn't mean it that way :)
kind regards to you

app = Facegen.

I'm pretty sure it's not that app, but I'm going to run a few more tests to narrow down and see which app I'm going to reinstall, because this is all starting to smell like an app file corruption.

First I'm going to bring the objects to my other machine and try it on a different Poser install. I'll update when I know , thanks so much!