heyas; what poser file is corrupting itself? it is always best to make a backup of your poser.rsr file, and/or write protect it to prevent it from getting loopy. if a library or pz3 file is re-opening strangely... i've never seen anything that makes the face spiky. can you post a picture of the corrupted face? :) one thing that does happen is the 'geom offset' thingy in the pz3 gets set to something odd. this makes your figures stretch out into crazy melted-plastic dali shapes. you can fix that by editing the last line in the file. it should be set to 0,0,0 (er, i think. the cr2 files have a different number. at any rate, check an uncorrupted saved file and copy the offset setting.)