While I really don't like any figures or animals for my Vue scenes, they can be used if you work on them. I read about Poser 9 a while ago and in looking around now, came upon a post in the Renderosity Poser forum that said it could be gotten for $64.99 full for a download version until June 24.  I could never find the URL on the SmithMicro site, so I kept going back to the forum. Here it is if anyone is interested. http://store.smithmicro.com/productdetails.aspx?id=20591&sgid=858

As an aside, it downloads very slowly. When I download updates from Vue it usually is at 2.5 MB/sec. Poser files download at 100KB/second. There are about 9 files, so be prepared.