Well, here is the mysterious part... The scenes did render at one time...then , For example, I might have just moved a light or changed a character position then boom! For instance, the current render is very simple reletivly speaking. I have had no trouble renders much longer and more complex scenes. The current animation worked fine on the first cut . I do them in cuts like on TV...cut 1 cut 2 etc. I usually spawn each cut from the last frame of the previous cut scene then when everythings rendered I put them together in Adobe after affects or something similar. Anyway, I spawned my current cut scene 2 from the last frame of Cut scene 1...nothing changed accept the sound track and a few minor motions from the central character. Boom! now it crashes. =( Now let's remember , this scene is spawned right off the one I just succesfully completed. Sigh, I thought it had something to do with the strong lighting I was using but I took out all but one light and it still crashes! I must admit , I didn't start running into these problems till I created a scene that had lots of boolean objects and lots of imported 3ds files. But if thats the problem, wouldn't it crash every time and not just sometimes?? It just doesn't seem to make sense. I am starting to think that huge scene that I made that kept crashing and rebooting my computer somehow corrupted Poser...is that possible?