Thanks to everyone for all the good wishes and nice comments. I need nice thoughts at the moment, since I'm just about ready to assasinate Bill Gates (it's probably not his fault, but he'll do as a target). Anyway, I thought I'd be smart and try re-installing windows over the old files. Well, it worked and I can access and back up all my files, which is GREAT! But everything else is so screwed up, I'm goin to have to wipe the HDD and start from scratch. Did I really think it would be that easy? Oh well, the main thing is I saved all my work. I always have back-ups, but I missed out on some figure-building and uv mapping over the last few days which I wouldn't want to repeat. So Room Creator Expansion #1 is still alive and kicking. And I'm alive and looking for something to kick. Now.... where are those cats when I need them? LOL. mac