Spit - That's funny, I know what you mean about holding your breath before doing that final click. I have been on that cliff. : ) Now let me relate something else. Last night, I loaded the Sassy Hair from DAZ. I loaded a model and applied the hair, upon trying to 'switch' to the Hair MAT folder, I got the LOCK. So I went to the Hair MAT folder in the Deep File Editor (from now on DFE), and there was one wrong reference. I corrected it, rechecked the others and tried again. I got the same problem. Loaded a model, loaded the hair, tried to switch and BOOM. So I checked OTHER files in the folder and tried again. Same thing and gave up for the night. Well sleep rounded me out and in the morning almost instantly upon wakening (sad, huh? [g]), it occured to me that the hair file itself (the hr2 file) must be loading a texture that is wrongly referenced. Opened the DFE and loaded the hair and Son of a... the file had a wrong references - I corrected it and now, smooth sailing. The point of that whole story is that I learned to remember that when I think I've corrected everything (meaning mostly pose MAT files) there's a possibility that the base file itself may load textures that could be referenced incorrectly. Dave