oooh! been down that very same sh$$$y road my friend. It sucks for sure. As others have said, I now backup on a regular basis to an external format (e.g. CD) because if I lost all my poser stuff now ... I would probably start shooting people...seriously :-) Wax: yeah $600 is not that much to have paid to get back 95% of your data...especially when you consider all the time you spent creating or acquiring it. Time is money for sure! Here's to better days then!