First off, I would just like to say I'm grossly disgusted with the way Smith Micro has handled Poser.  At one point I was decided to tell them to shove it and go and learn DAZ Studio.  I don't know who the yahoo was that decided to leave out the .rsr thumbnail support, but that was just plain ignorant.  There is absolutely no reason for making us have to use a third party program to fix a mistake that should have never have been there in the first place.

I did, however, fix a major graphical problem that I had been having.  This recent version of Poser has had me ready to break something... and unfortunatelyI have $600 in new monitors sitting in front of me and they are in arms reach... that would not be cool.

My fix comes from a problem that after I run a render and go back to preview mode, I am hit with a blank screen when I mouse over the figure.  Thankfully ATI JUST came out with a new update a few days ago that fixed this problem, but I'm still having a problem that has migrated from Poser7.  When I first load a figure, some of the textures are replaced by eye textures, until I do a render of the figure, then it returns to normal.

The new library system is a totally FUBAR, the previous library look was just right because I could stretch it across my second monitor and see everything.  Now I'm reduced to a single line and it is very hard to pick anything out.  This obviously comes from someone that has no clue what Poser is and has never used it.   What I don't understand is, what's the point of having the library palette stretch so big when all the folders remain to the left?  They stay stacked instead of moving with the screen.  If I missed something about changing the library layout, please tell me because I've been through all the options and files and there is nothing I can see.

I do have a few other minor issues, but at least now the damn program is somewhat useful.  I've been scanning the forums here and I cannot believe just how many problems (especially the same) that have popped up.  Seriously, how can you screw up a program that you aren't even building from scratch?  This has even been a problem with the P7 SR3 update, before that one, I never had a problem (save for an ATI problem, that wasn't Poser though), and the SR3 was under Smith Micro.

In closing, I'm going to stick with Poser for now, I'm looking into 3rd party library options... though once again I shouldn't have to... and hope that nothing else screws up.