@ 3Drendero: When you mentioned Clarisse in one of your posts above, for a second I thought I went the wrong way with Lightwave. But then I took a very close look at Clarisse, and that convinced me that, for the likes of me, Lightwave is the right choice.

Clarisse, even though it is in the same price range as Lightwave, is more geared as a tool to fit in large production studios pipelines. Its support for pre-made contents is limited to .obj and Alembic at this time, and I suspect that if you mention Daz/Poser contents in their forums they will laugh at you as some kind of unprofessional noobie.