P5 crashes if it can't find the textures. This has been documented on a multitude of systems. I have a recovery rate of about 50% - meaning 50% of the time I can get P5 to ask me where the texture is. I've waited over 10 minutes some times to get P5 to recover so I didn't lose my work, so it's not a matter of impatience and End Tasking too early. The P5 hair frizz has been confirmed over and over again - I can't remember anyone posting that they haven't seen the problem on occasion. The lights issue has been confirmed over and over again. Thank goodness agiel created a python script to reset all the lights so the light conflicts don't occur. (Actually, thank you in general to the python scripters like ockham who've made the program far more usable!) We have compared system specs, exact steps taken to cause problems, etc. and we haven't found a cause-effect relationship yet. (If CL has, they certainly haven't shared it with us.) As you've read, plain vanilla computers have puked while people with hard drive brimming with software have had few problems. (There is a long list of known, seemingly universal issues, but some people have more additional problems than others.) There's a good number of programmers and computer techs who are members here, so please do not assume that those of us with lots of P5 problems are computer newbies with virii laden 386's. Thanks, Cres Secretary of the EVM (Extremely Vocal Minority)