I finally got the time and band width to download all three and a half gigs of the Poser 8 install.

It installed without any problems. Then I ran the whole Libraries folder through Poser File Organizer...something I do with every freshly installed file. It took PFO about 10 minutes to go through finish the job and report. What came up was nothing short of a sloppy mess. Literally hundreds of bad references due to incorrectly named or incorrectly located files...mostly texture files. Here's a typical example:

The File "Sci-fi Wall_Hull1.mt5" has the reference line:

*Runtime:Libraries:Materials:Basic:Sci-Fi-Wall-1.jpg

the correct reference should be:

**Runtime:Libraries:Materials:Procedurals:Basic Materials:**Sci-Fi-Wall-1.jpg

As you can see, the location of the file is incorrect.

While it took PFO only 10 minutes to make the report, it's taking me a lot longer to fix the problems because of the incorrect file names and the fact the SmithMicro didn't have the smarts to put all the textures in the "textures" folder!  Actually, several texture files may be missing...I'm not sure...the references are for file names that aren't even close to anything I can find in searching my runtime folder.

Honestly, I don't know what to say. I've never run into a Poser install with this many errors before and I've have every version of Poser except Poser Pro. Was SmithMicro just in too much of a hurry to proof their work?

I'd rather stay in my lane than lay in my stain!