I tried breaking the link to Poser and subdivide - and it brought me the problem of loosing the texture and shader as well. I also tried changing the size of the shadow light source and it did not really work. So I took the image through PSP and posted it to the Carrara galleries: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=1230806

I'll have to try and try again to see if I can find a workaround for the problem.

Thanks for the help!