If Poser Artist came in the redesigned box with installation card, it should still have had the official thick manual and the handy folded card with quick information on all the features. The card has a long list of keyboard shortcuts and other goodies, just like the cards for Bryce and PhotoShop, so I tend to keep them at hand, even if the manuals are packed away. The Poser 4 manual has a decent first tutorial where you load, dress, accessorize, and walk a clown along a curving path with lights and camera and rendering. It is basic but gets you acquainted with the main tools and provides an anchor for later questions... like when to parent and when to conform. If you are on a Mac, get MacInstaller and Macconverter from MartinC's site. They will do much of this loading in the right places activity automatically. If you are on a PC, you should read the readmes before trying to install something, and hope they tell you where all the parts ought to go. Later on, you can rearrange some of the libraries more to your liking. As mentioned above... don't fiddle with the geometries unless you are pretty confident about what goes where. Dr Geep also made a nice screen of the extensions for the file types as an aide to placement: .fc2 in Faces, .cm2 in Cameras... that sort of thing... but it gets tricky if you misread .pz2 and .pp2! Carolly