Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

Turn IK off.

Thanks for the suggestion, but IK was already off.  I turned it on and off again and there was no change. :( 

Did you save the scenes with external binary morph values?  If you did, the PMD's may have become corrupted.  Otherwise, change your display, OpenGL or SreeD and notice if the problem corrects itself.

Use external binary morph targets is unchecked.  I checked it, unchecked it, no difference.  I changed from OpenGL to SreeD, no difference.  changed it back, no difference.  I was really hoping this was a common problem with a simple solution, I don' t want to have to reinstall poser, again if I can possibly avoid it.  

I use Poser 8... But I also have Poser 9 installed, it is doing the same damn thing.  Distorting the characters limbs.  Did my PZ3 files somehow become corrupted?

I have had both versions of poser installed for months, Poser 8 has worked just fine all this time.  Poser 9 is very slow and unstable, so I don't use it.

Also, my runtime has gotten HUGE, 130 GB.  Could that be causing a problem?

Is it twisted beyond 360 degrees?

Also was this something you posed yourself or loaded it from the library?

No the twists and bends are within normal parameters.  The country girl was loaded from one of DM's pose sets, I modified it a bit.  Same is true of the cowgirl.  When I select the forearm of the cowgirl, rather than outlining the forearm to indicate a selection.. it seems to highlight on the bone instead.  Strange.  

thank you all for trying to help.  Are there any other ideas?  Has anybody ever seen this problem before?

Are you seeing this with more than one figure?

I have seen this problem when a figure was corrupt for some reason.  The fix was re-installing it. 

Had this before a couple of time.  Had to zero all the morphs in order to have it go away. I think it was a mix of several injections that made the problem for me.

randym77- these are two separate scenes.  The inset of the cowgirl (upper left in this picture) is from a different commission I am working on from the country girl in the main picture.  I have two other characters in the cowgirl scene, nothing is wrong with them.  Actually both of these pictures are from commissions I am currently working on.  If I can't fix this, I am out of business.  :(

ghostman...thanks, I will give that a shot.  I must have over 100 morphs into each of these characters.  This is a royal pain in the butt.

Come to think of it, I have seen something like this occasionally when I make adjustments to poses in a scene, but all I have to do is switch to another camera and back, and it goes away.  

Separate scenes, yes, but are they separate figures?  Both Victoria 4, say.  If the problem is with the figure, it would affect all the characters based on the figure.

All the same figures, V4.2.  I have 3 figures in the cowgirl scene, and only the one is messed up.  They are all V4.2

Fixed it!! I had to delete the figure and reload her,  and reapply the pose.  It worked, but I was hoping to avoid having to do it that way.  Turns out those we're the onyet two scenes that got messed up.  I have hundreds of scenes saved as pz3 files, I opened these two consecutively and assumed they would all be like that.  Turns out these we're the only two. I would still love to know what caused this so I can avoid it in thee future.  Back in business at least!  Thank you all for the helpfully suggestions.

The iPhone spellchecker sucks!

Sometimes you can import a corrupted PZ3 file into a new blank scene, and problems with corrupted figures or props go away. I delete to lights in a new scene, and import the old PZ3.

lmk