Honestly, I have been using the poser pre-rigged, testing a bit w/ mimic also. I stopped dealing with my own rigs, when I get around to some character modeling I am sure I will deal with it again. Some of the limitations w/ cararra's current animation/rigging haven't compelled me to deal with it.If I get problems in carrara I don't get freezing. I get errors or a few times thrown out(carrara trees do this). More often I get sluggish performance(they really need to look at D|S opengl preview).

No need to think outside the box....
    Just make it invisible.