...here's the trick: I never installed it in WINE.

I'll explain... I installed a Windows XP partition at my missus' behest. While I was there, I chucked in Poser 6 (thinking I could snatch libraries and such for a WINE test).

Just for giggles, I cruised over to the directory where it was sitting after installing Linux and WINE, and launched Poser.exe for giggles. The screenshot is what came up.

A quickie load-and-render test showed that it worked just fine.