I have a brand new computer that came with XP-- I have a lot of memory and processor and Poser seems to like to have around 16Gs on the scratch disk. I'm not the only one who has noticed this. Seems stupid but I 've got a lot now and I'm keeping it that way-- yeah, I still have these kinds of freezes,by the way, memory leaks still happen and there still seems to be a 2 to 3 hour time-out on all the Poser's, 4 PP and 5, I've worked on [three different computers, 2 Sonys and a Dell] Emily