Thanks everyone for your advise as this has done the trick. Sorry Neil, I'm using Poser 4 & I have 1gig of ram - do you think I could do with more? I think Yunas is right in saying that Poser uses the out of memory message when something happens that Poser doesn't understand. Could anyone explain the best way for saving chactors (Dressed) for future use - is it best to save them within new people? I've had a go at this before & ran in to problems re-loading the figures. Thanks again for all your advise. John