I has taken me a while to get use to the changes in the shader from RDS 5.5 to Carrara 2 (the jump I made). Looking at it, I'de say you want a value in the highlight (none doesn't mean there is no highlight). Insert a value slider set to zero, and see if that makes it look somewhat right. Then you can incorporate the transparency map (adjusting the brightness, or using it as a mixer for two values), so that the hair will have some highlight, but the part that is transparent won't. EMC