Hey Mark, I have 1.5gigs of ram (and version 6.03) which is a bit on the low side for today’s apps.  I am going to play with this like you said and see what I can come up with. 

I really do like Carrara and would love to at least do some minor tweaking to V4.  My workflow has been to model in ZBrush (create morphs or new figures) and in Poser I would pose and use the morph brush to tweak the bends to look more realistic.  Carrara IMHO (I just learned what that acronym was today) handles shadows and renders much better than Poser and Vue 6 for me at least. 

Here is a low rez version of a render done in Carrara.  I know I have a long way to go to get the realism, but it’s much easier in Carrara.

Thanks,
Philip