Quote - I'm sorry I meant bounce rate of 6

Bounce won't matter unless you've enabled raytracing.

Quote - all I am rendering is m3 in his costume punching 130 g2 animation but it looks so much better if I put it at final quality than anything else

I recommend switching to manual settings, and learning what each option does.  It'll give you a lot more control over the process than simply setting everything to maximum and hoping for the best.

stewer has some helpful information on his website.  Some of it was written for Poser 5, but much is still applicable.

http://www.keindesign.de/stefan/poser/index.html

Quote - how do these guys post screen shots of settings? what program do I have to buy to do that

 

If nothing else, assuming that you're on Windows, you can use the PrintScreen key on your keyboard to copy the screen to clipboard, then paste it into Microsoft Paint.

Most decent paint programs (Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, The GIMP, etc.) have built-in screen-capture functions.