Well, unfortunately my most recent attempt with g3f crashed and I lost it all. However, it was turning out pretty good. I used v7 and the camisole and skirt from the vagabond outfit. Bejaymac's suggestion helped with the time issue. As a matter of fact, I took it a little further. Before converting everything to props, I removed the smoothing modifier, turned resolution level to base resolution, and turned View SubD Level to zero. This improved the both the conversion time and draping time for the items. I let the skirt drape for 51 frames and the camisole for 31 frames. The whole process took under an hour to complete, probably around 45-50 minutes. It crashed when I attempted to increase the draping on the camisole from 31 to 51 frames. I suspect that this may have something to do with the fact that I had it colliding with a skirt prop that I deleted and then replaced at one point for some forgotten reason. Well, off to try again!