If you set it to start with the Preferred state, get rid of Don from the screen and reset prefered state, it won't have to load him when Poser starts. If this really makes a difference, it may indicate that Poser is having an issue finding something on the disk. I don't think this is really gonna be the case, but if a texture can't be found, Poser seems to look for a while. When my drive crashed, that last couple of times I opened Poser took much longer than usual because data was corrupt. It just took longer and longer and the I got the warning that Poser.exe was corrupted.