Please forgive my ignorance mtmckinley,

When you first mentioned triangulating and quadrangulating...I only tried quadrangulating which didnt work.

So after triangulating the object and then reducing the polygons, I came up with this..(see attached image)

although for some reason the triangulation shows up on the object once imported into poser, instead of a flat surface???

is there a way arounnd this (i have tried smoothing polygons also to no avail)?????