I hate to tell you this, but it's probably a very very pbad idea to run Photoshop at the same time as Poser. Poser 4, PP and 5 all have known serious memory leaks and running them at the same time as another memory hog is unrecommended. I had the opposite experience with you, up to a point. More freezes with P4 than PP, but I had plenty of freezes with PP. After a certain amount of time, it freezes. The same is true of Poser 5, very unfair since it takes a longer time to accomplish anything in 5 and still it wants to take a nap after 2 or 4 or 5 hours. If it were consistent or logical about it's freezes, things would be so much easier, but it isn't. At least try to learn to save often. I also forget and then have to reapply countless stuff in the material room. Makes me want to give up sometimes, but I don't. Short answer, there are plenty of other people out there like you. Emily