the overheating, and possibly bad ram were the first thing that popped into my caffeine deficient brain this morning... Poser uses every bit of cpu power and ram that you can throw at it, so other apps may not give your components the workout that poser does.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together.
All things connect......Chief Seattle, 1854