Oh. I was thinking more on the lines of this style:
http://www.nixopax.com/?id=121 of course, that's the kind of style I'll be doing, but you aren't limited to that. It could vary from sprites to FBF, sticks(but lets's try to not be overtly crappy about this style shall we?), and madness combat figurine characters with floating appendages.
Poser? hm... I don't know too much about CGI character design. Does poser have a movie clip ability like 3Dstudio Max? If not, this could be tough.
As for sound quality, you just type ctrl+shift+f12, go to the flash tab, and click on the set button for audio stream. Then change bit rate to 56kbps or higher.
Movie clips are quite easy cow. Tell me you understand how to make a movie clip in flash. If not, go to a couple tutorials and then come back. It'd be the least you could do. I learnt everything from tutorials and screwing around in flash. But if you still don't know how to do it, and would like to have me do it, just send me your fla when you're done, and i can export it into a movie clip. Or, you can just send me the swf, and I'll extract the fla as best I can
oh yeah, signup ends in one week. How about that? July 27th you have to be signed up. Then we'll figure out a due date.