"One of the nice features of Pro is that you can import from other packages, reduce the number of polygons while your working on the animation and then bring back in the full high res version of the figure later." Well there's a KEY piece of info I've never heard before! THANKS!! That may or may not do it, but it is encouraging. In the event that Pro does not fix the "ANIMATED poser scene import interface slowdown" bug, this may help speed things up. Then again, it may only help with still/object Poser imports. Who knows. But thanks again. -Tim