You know, I really wish I could have my money back. Certainly could have spent it better, atleast until they get this mess fixed. It is just amazing that e-on would release such a buggy product. You would think they would care about image!!
 I agree with silverblade, a major issue is here with the way V6I reads texture maps. Seems Any sizable model imported with high texture maps really slows it down, and not just pz3's. Pz3's import for me fine for the most part, no weird texture or geometry issues. Some do take a bit to load and some will just crash it immediatly (but will open in V5I). Using multy models in scenes will for the most part, make things so sluggish its not even worth the effort. In my  mind its, not really an issue with poser, take your pick, 5,6 or 7 versions. Its an issue with V6I.

Interesting that they ask for a model upload to test. Not like this is actually tied to one or a few models.....

MONSOON has some awesome stuff, over at 3d commune :) It's not free as  you wanted, but IS well worth the $$

Purchased V6I a few weeks ago, and am loving it.... for the most part. Does seem to have some memory issues though, hopefully they will get it all ironed out.  Only really weird thing I have had happen so far is that it wanted me  to re-activate yesterday!  Was about to begin work on a fresh project, decided to reboot the pc for a clean start.  Fired up Vue, and got a little box saying I must activate. Let it connect, punched  the activation code in again, and was good to go. But did seem rather odd behavior? Anyone else have similar issues?