Yeah - I tried an isolated two-machine setup yesterday. Let me tell you how it went: Both machines had a fresh Win2KS installation. VP + cow on one, cow on the other - all e-on updates installed. The same thing with the dual entries happened. The standalone cow also complained about various MS Visual C++ dll's missing. (IMHO: Using Microsoft Foundation Classes is a disgrace and the programmers at e-on should be flogged for using them). Ahem. Eventually I did manage to find them, though. Once I had deselected their ip-counterparts, the cows then actually worked fine until towards the end of the render, where they insisted on rendering the same tile of the image (Danish Spring). When they returned their data from the render, all hell broke loose. The cows simply died and VP crashed to the desktop. BWAHAAAA! Sniff I tried again with the Amazon image - same deal. When I tried 'Danish Spring' again, both cows crashed halfways and VP froze. Oh well, I'm sure I'll figure it out someday. Funny part is, I'm a LightWave user and have had absolutely zero problems with their cow-sounterpart. Something is definitely not right....hmmm.