Here is a preview page with render settings

And here is the actual render.

Can anyone help?

A screenshot of the Background shader tree from the Material room may provide some useful info.

Here we are..

Different figure though..

Now another problem.  clicking on tabs between  Preview and Render  in the Pose Room..

Will not stay in render,  drops back to Preview after a few seconds..

Quote - Here we are..

Looks OK.

But obviously it is not..!

Any suggestions?   Anyone?

If you're using the external renderer, try with the internal one.

Another long shot, but you might also try renaming the file to something that doesn't have a space or underscore in it (can't tell which from the screenshot).

in addition to noel's advice, there was an old bug dating from P5 in which ground/background img wouldn't render if dead/duplicate nodes present in shader tree.  otherwise, map the img to a cloth plane.

Ok,  here is some more confusion.  I have several other images, created at the same time.
They all work fine. So it is just this one image causing a problem..

nruddock,   I am using the firefly render as You can see in the first image posted..

Simple solution...   Trash the offending image.   Re render with another image.

Quote - there was an old bug dating from P5 in which ground/background img wouldn't render if dead/duplicate nodes present in shader tree.

I knew there was something along those lines, but couldn't remember/find the details other than it was a Mac problem.

Quote - Simple solution...   Trash the offending image.   Re render with another image.

So it's something to do with either the original file or filename.
Does the new file have an underscore or space in the name ?
What about the case of the extension for the working and non-working images ?

I was gifted these files.

They are numbered in sequence..

Quote - I was gifted these files.

They are numbered in sequence..

I don't understand how this information is relevant to the last questions I asked, so let me rephrase :-

Does either the original filename or the new filename contain a " " or a "_" ?
Do both file names have the extension in lower case (e.g. jpg) or was the original extension in upper case (e.g. JPG) ?

Yes there are spaces in the file name..

and yes, the extensions are in lower case. 
It is only the ONE image causing a problem.

Hence the " Trash the image " comment..

I re-named the offending image,  still does not work.

I have asked the person who created the pic if He can re-render.

or resave said img using different name and filetype, in case there were any control characters (invisible) that weren't deleted in renaming op.

OK, so as it's definitely just one image, unless you find something about that image that's unusual, then there's not a lot more help I can give you.

If the image format is one that allows an alpha channel, then it's not unknown for those to be processed incorrectly (in this case a bug report to SM would be in order, but only if yuo can legitimately supply the problem image to them).

SM are looking into it..

Here we go again..!!

The backgound image has been Redone in Artmatic Voyager..
I have redone the scene using the same figures with different textures..
Now I render using the exact settings as before..

What do I see?

No background.
No texture on the wings
No detail on the skin..

Help..!

Preview above.

And here is the render screen.!

Now I am totally confused.  ( There are Some that say it is what I am on a good day. )

Here it is.. The problem image..

If there's a problem with that image then it's a problem in the specific format of your copy.

Once it's been through whatever mangling this forum uses to tidy up images for posting it is called "file_440349.jpg", is "JPEG image data, JFIF standard 1.01", is 242163 bytes long, and works fine as a background, at least in my copy of Poser 8.

I know..  It is a crazy Thing.  The image renders in Poser pro though.

Like I stated earlier,  delete this  image from My files and put it down to experisnce..!

Did you try (say) downloading the copy from the forum here and checking to see whether it still misbehaves on your system?

LazyLeopard..    Any relation to "Snow" ?

That works,  thanks...!