I have a simple prop -- let's say, a bar bell. Two plates parented to a shaft. I'm trying to make it into a smart prop parented to a figure's right hand. So:

I maneuver the barbell's shaft into the figure's right hand.
I parent the shaft to the hand.
I hit the + sign to add the prop to the Prop Library.
I get a dialogue box, give the prop a name, and select the subset of things (Shaft,LPlate,RPlate) to include in it. I hit okay. The prop is saved.

But I never get asked whether I want it to be a smart prop or not.

If I start over now, open a new file, add a figure, and then add my prop from the library -- it appears where the figure's right hand is, all right, but only if the figure is still in default position. If the figure has been posed at all first, the barbell will just appear in the air where the hand used to be in default position. And whether the figure's hand is there to receive it or not, it is not parented to the hand.

So is it a smart prop, or not? Is that as smart as smart props get? (If it is, I can live with it. But I thought they arrived parented, and that the receiving figure didn't have to be in default position to receive.)

So my questions are:

1. Why am I not getting the "Do you want to make this a smart prop?" question, which I know have seen sometimes when saving a prop in the past.

2. Have I in fact created a smart prop anyway? Are these the usual attributes of a smart prop?

3. If not, how do I get Poser to ask me the smart prop question so I can in fact save the prop as a smart prop?

Please help. Need sleep.