Well this leaves me speechless.  I never would have imagined

Adam thanks for your help.  I have CS4 and have been able to make some good improvements but all those horizontal lines cannot be smoothed out completely.  I will bring it into Illustrator and use the mesh tool to it there and play around with it.  It's better than warp in PS because you can make the mesh as dense as you want where PS only allows for a 3x3 mesh

Please sell them to us poor schlubs.  I am willing to sell my wife to get any of these.

I would love to give you some advice, but the deviant art site is asking me to create an account first.  Put the images in the gallery here at Rendo and I would love to look at them.

Very nice work.  Sorry you had to spend so much figuring it all out.  I made a video tutorial over at G@P on just this very thing several months ago.

I agree fixer, i use Poser only for making a character to import to VUE.

Well, you may find the tutorials at GAP irritating, but they still demonstrate many different techniques or tools in the program.  So for that, they are still worth their weight in gold IMHO

I was hoping baking meant someone was making cookies

You could always set your render sequence to begin at frame 1000 instead of it beginning at the start.  Do you know how to do that?

Right click on your timeline and select "set animation start."  Then just dial in the frame number where you want your animation to begin.  The same works for "set animation end."

whoa!

THese are all fine points.  Keep them coming.

Both of you have been very helpful.  I am still open to more expert opinions and trials of experience.

Yay!  I fixed it following vegemites advice.  Uninstall then reinstall.  Problem solved.  Thx all for the help

I will try that.  THanks so much for your insight.  I'll get back to you on the results.

I have seen this same question about 2 months ago here in the forums.  Try doing a search and see what the final results were.  I wish you the best of luck on this.  Oh, when you find the solution, please post it here so others can learn from it.