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.

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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.