Was expecting this to be a super-simple question and answer (and it very well may be), but I simply can't find any info with a Google search, and digging through Poser's menus hasn't come up with anything.

Simply put, I'd like to customize the keyboard and navigation controls for Poser, but I can't find any option to do so in the preferences menu. More specifically, I'm looking to set my camera/view controls to the middle mouse button, like Blender uses; I was able to modify DS quite easily to this control scheme (click and hold middle mouse button to rotate, Shift+MMB to pan side-to-side, and Ctrl+MMB to zoom in and out smoothly). Makes the workflow worlds easier for me, being able to navigate around in the 3D scene without needing to use the camera controls on the sidebar.
Does Poser even have this functionality? I'd expect it does, it seems silly that two freebie programs could outstrip it in terms of personalization and efficiency. I'm hoping the options are in there, and simply buried where I can't find them.

I'm using Poser Pro 2010 right now, I should note, but I can make the jump up to Poser 9 or Pro 2012, if they have options that Pro 2010 doesn't. (I'd prefer not to, but I plan to create content I can sell, so I'd consider it an investment both economically and for my sanity.)

the middle mouse button control was added with the latest service pack for pp12. 

haven't tried it myself though.

Unfortunately, it only allows scrolling the mouse wheel to zoom in/out.

Well that's a bit of a bother; I'll look into PP12 I guess, but the lack of customization options otherwise is a bit of a turn-off.

Thanks for the info though, both of you.

You may want to try my camera script in freestuff. I haven't tried it with the latest SR though, so I have no idea how it interacts with the added mouse wheel scroll option in the SR.