On the non-working P4 installation, I tried to delete the invisible figure, and loaded another - which also remained invisible. I tried to render it, to see what would happen. This time, before using 100% of the CPU and stalling, Poser gave me the message that it didn't have enough memory, and that I should allocate more memory to poser. This is on a PC with 2 Gig of Ram, and poser never gave me any problems like this before. Also, all my other software (including Poser 5) is running with no problems. Once again, if anyone can point me to a solution, I'd be very VERY grateful! Morph