Picked up this idea from this thread
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2732247

Works in P7. Granted not an issue if the scene was saved using P6, the props will load as expected. P6 on a Intel Mac is slower then slow and changing runtimes is a major pain and takes forever to do in P6 vs P7. Hence why I am exploring a work around.

Generic P7 scene
Lets say you have a poser patio set with prop table and chairs, but the umbrella is a figure because it is poseable. Load the umbrella as a figure, then the table and chairs as props. Try to import into Vue6 Inf and the umbrella makes it and the table and chairs don't. Try re-parenting the chairs and tables as a solution mentioned elsewhere etc, no dice. Can't get the table and chairs to import from the saved p7 pz3.

With (in my example) the patio furniture loaded in P7
...Open the Hierarchy editor in P7 under the Window drop down and select each prop and at the bottom of the Hierarchy editor is an option to create a new figure. That converts the prop to a figure and saves it out to your default poser runtime  in the figures lib in a folder-directory named, duh...New Figures with no icon ( you just get shuggy).

Delete the original prop and load the new converted figure and it imports with poser materials intact into Vue6 inf. If you have the vue scene open and now save the pz3 again vue will sense the change in the poser file and even ask you if you want to update and in comes the props (now a figure) that didn't make it before. With the chair landing right under V3 in Vue6 inf where I posed it in P7

Weird part is the saved off cr2 has the geometry embedded in the cr2 file just like some props and it does not toss off an object file even if the original prop has  an obj file reference. You can even change the extension of the file from cr2 to pp2 and throw it in your props lib and it will load again not as a prop but under the figures section in the P7 preview pane. (it now has a body reference)

For simple props, this seems to be a quick and dirty solution for P7 users. Have yet to try this with parented or smart parented props or some of the prop hairs people have reported problems with that I own and want to use in a Vue scene.

I used to have a problem importing p7 scene with only props, no figures.  If there was one figure - everything imported fine. This bug seems to have been fixed in the newer build of vue.
I'm using Vue inf 6.50-04 build 292350  on  a Mac(intel), and it works fine.
However I didnt know about being able to convert prop->figure so easily in the hierarchy window.
This will come handy in cloth simulations when I want to constrain part of the 'cloth' .  It only gets constraint to figure parts not props. My work around wasnt as easy as this method, so thanks very much!