Heheh... You're right, I did forget to mention it, but in the 2 days I did reboot approximately 23 times. I also forgot to mention I tried penguinisto's trick of Rt-Clking on Poser in XP services, and adjusting priorities several different ways and settings at several points in the process. I even tried exporting the scene as an OBJ, but-that just crashed Poser completely - closed it down & disappeared from memory without a trace. I tried several other things as well that don't come to mind, but I'd really like to get this scene rendered, so anyone else with a suggestion, please feel free to post it. I'm guessing it has to do with all the Refl maps, as I've had much larger scenes with no problems, but it was rendering fine until I added the last 3 items, and still wouldn't even after I deleted those and several others. Weird, huh? ...Thanks....