Let me see if I can keep this simple, 'cause it's kinda hard to explain.

I open a figure in Poser, add morphs and play with the dials until I get the shape I want. I then load (for example) a pair of pants and want to use some preset magnets to help the pants conform to the shape of the figure's morphs. Once the magnet loads, it does not parent to the pants, it ends up parenting to the figure.

So far, the only way I have found to get around this is to start a scene, load the pants, then load the magnet onto the pants. THEN I have to import the scene with the figure just so I can use the magnets properly.

I have upgraded from Poser 7 to 11, so I don't know if this was an issue in past versions, but it seems like there is some option or setting that is preventing the magnets from parenting to the selected object rather than the figure. I have tried changing the figure names too (I don't get why Poser now calls the initial figure "Figure" instead of "Figure 1"), but that doesn't seem to work either. This has become very frustrating because it takes me twice as long to fit clothing to figures if I need to employ magnets, which the whole point of having them is to speed things up when you put them in your library as a preset option.