WOW Illusions! I can't thank you enough! You are the 1st person (that I've noticed) who said to correct the "start in" path...all I've ever heared is correct the path in the shortcut....well, it's never been wrong (the path to the poser.exe).....so that has never worked....nor made any sense to me....but when I added the path to the "start in" just like you said and then opened Poser, everything was exactly where I wanted it....I have fretted with this for almost 2 years.....LOLOLOL Duhhh, I coulda had a V-8! Thank you for being specific!