A follow up to the post below.  The vendor suggested I import the Poser 7 prop as an .obj file rather than a .pz3 as I had been doing.  I did that and the problem may be gone ( I can't be sure until I see it textured), but I can't get Vue 8 to recognize any of the textures. 

The names of the textures are showing up in the imported materials list, but they are all just a plain gray flat texture.  and when i go into the advanced material editor and click on mapped picture in Color and Alpha it says "none." 

Vue saw the textures when I imported as a .pz3.  All the textures are in the same file as the .ojb file. 

What am I doing wrong?

Poser can export the contents of a scene to a folder.  This python script will copy the pz3 file, .obj models, and all textures, bump maps, and transparency maps!

Poser 7 - On the Scripts menu, select Utility, Collect Scene Inventory.

Poser 6 - On the Windows menu, click Python Scripts. 

Click the Utility Funcs button.

Click the Collect Scene Inventory button.

Select Copy all to Folder.

Make sure you copy to an empty folder – you will have lots of files!  Now use the files in this folder to import into Vue.

Tried your instructions.  Got the textures and the Poser file, but the object file comes in as Camera and when I load it I get - a camera.  I want to load a prop into Vue, but the prop has a ton of parts.