Any tips on how I can speed up animation?  I change rate but it doesn't seem to change the timing any and the animation is going VERY slow - like half of a step per second.

Thanks in advance

You need to retime the animation. To speed it up, shorten the total amount of frames, and leave the frame rate alone.
Pulldown menus>Animation>retime Animation

sweet - I did that once but I didn't know what it did at the time lol.  Ill go back in there and try that again.

I tried importing it into Vue to render but I somehow lost half the frames when going from poser to vue and now it goes super duper fast instead of slow.

wanting to buy middle ground!

I change it in both areas to 25 instead of 30.  Hit ok.  Nothing changes.  Open it back up and it will show 30 in both windows again.

IF you're wanting to change the overall frame range from 30 to 25, you should make the Source Frames 1 to 30 and the Destination Frames 1 to 25.  That should do it.

Nope that does nothing at all.  I've tried it with "this element" as well as with "all elements".  Now I closed out that animation and loaded an old version of the scene.  Created walk path and walk animation.  It wanted to use 111 frames.  I let it.  Then I go to retime it (because yet again it's slow as hell) - source 1 - 111.  destination 1-60.  Hit ok - close box.  Nothing happens.  Reopen animation timing box and it says 1- 111 in both boxes again.

I am beginning to think it would be faster to render each individual frame I want and them put them at the correct time in Roxio or WMM myself.

Checked my handy dandy poser book and it appears that yes it is in fact "suppose" to work this way.  Looks like yet again while using poser I have fallen victim to murphys law.

You don't notice a change in the position of the keyframes in the Animation Palette? The animation will still be the same length but the keyframes should be closer together in the timeline.

That is odd that it isn't working for you, It always does for me... It is indeed puzzling..