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Previous investigations of the first-named author (and \textit{M. McCrudden}) into the embedding problem for probabilities on Lie groups [Math. Z. 199, 369-385 (1988; Zbl 0732.43001)] and into convergence of types theorems [Math. Proc. Camb. Philos. Soc. 112, 91-108 (1992; Zbl 0765.43001)] pointed out the importance of proving the relative compactness of \(F (\lambda)/Z(\lambda)\) for a probability \(\lambda\in{\mathcal P}(G)\), where \(F (\lambda): =\{\mu: \mu^*\nu= \lambda= \nu^*\mu\}\) denotes the factor set and \(Z(\lambda)\) the centralizer of the support group \(G_\lambda\) of \(\lambda\). The paper under review begins with investigations of orbits \(T\lambda\) of probabilities on a vector space, \(T\) denoting a subgroup of automorphisms. The main result of Section 2 (Theorem 2.5) is generalized to connected Lie groups (Theorem 3.3) in Section 3, proving that for almost algebraic groups \(T\) -- under suitable conditions on \(\{g^{-1} \tau(g): \tau\in T\), \(g\in G\}\) -- the orbit \(T\lambda\) is open in its closure. These investigations are applied in Section 4 to generalize and improve previous results on the compactness of the quotients \(F(\lambda)/Z (\lambda)\) in \({\mathcal P}(G/Z (\lambda))\). For the entire collection see [Zbl 0927.00025].