I've only just realized that the workaround (writing and then applying a temporary pose file that smartparents the prop to the appropriate body part) which worked fine in PP2014, no longer works in Poser 11. In Poser 11 the prop is positioned so that it's correct for the figure's default/zero pose, not the figure's current pose. So the 'smart' part of 'smartparent'... isn't.

Does anybody know offhand whether the original bug was fixed in Poser 11 ?

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The 3Dcheapskate (also available in DAZ and HiveWire3D flavours) occasionally posts sensible stuff. Usually by accident.
And it usually uses Poser 11, with units set to inches. Except when it's using Poser 6 or PP2014, or when its units are set to PNU.