dave_so thats kewl man......P1 still works on XP? and you have a copy? damn...where can i get me a copy? id like to play with that! oh now i know why that interface looks familiar!!! i had Fractal Painter installed on my Windows 3.11 computer looooooong ago!! i remember that comp was the first comp i made....it was the year 1994 n i was 18 years old.....i built me a Intel 486 66MGz comp with the full shabang of a whopping 8 Megs of RAM!!!!! with 512KB Video memory!!! woohoo!! then i upgraded memory to 20 MEgs!! FASTFORWARD to the year 2003....that comp was sitting in my garage....i decided to take a steel hammer...put me on some goggles.....then whacked the crap out of that slow ass computer!! AND I FELT GREAT!!! Guys, if youve destroyed something without a care in the world you know the feeling im talking about!! PURE PRIMAL TESTOSTERONE PLAGUED RAGE! =) heh....the good old times man....just like the 1980s! =) kewl man....kewl...... =)