Computers are funny critters, really, they are. For instance, my win98 doesn't like my sound card. Or at least the mouse drivers don't like the "legacy device" that gets turned on automatically when I install the sound card drivers. Sooo... I found out the hard way that I had to install the drivers, and THEN reboot into safe mode to turn off the "legacy device" and THEN reboot into regular mode to keep my system from freezing up completely as soon as win98 booted up. But, at least I wrote that part down for future reference (never know when yer gonna have to re-install something that gets corrupted somehow... and can someone please tell me why 5 minutes after I shut down a program and then go to open it again windows will tell me "I never heard of it, what the heck are you talking about? You don't have that program installed" and never even bothers to say "oops, my mistake" when I point it to the applicable exe file? Huh? Can someone tell me why it does that? Am I not feeding it enough old dos applications or something? Is that the problem? g). Kate (who is currently re-installing her entire Poser setup due to some massive file corruption sigh)