I don't have Vue Pro, just Vue 4 with Mover 5. It runs pretty stable on my machine. But I do know the frustrations of using crashy programs. RDS 5 on my old computer would crash at least once per session under Win98. At least once every time I sat down to do something! So I eventually broke down and bought Animation:Master 2000, because Hash Inc. swore up and down that A:M was highly stable, and guess what? It crashed all the time too. They both run a lot more stable under XP, but I worked with both these crashy programs for years before I got XP. How Did I live with it? 2 things: I kept reminding myself that I spent a decent amount of money on these products, and that just shelving them and not using them at all was the best way to ensure that I wasted that money (Actually, my mom kept reminding me. Both were Xmas presents), and 2, I always remember a tip from the user manual for the first Leisure Suit Larry game. This piece of sage advice has been with me through every program I've used, and every video game I've played, and it's saved my butt too many times to count, so I'll pass it on to you: Jesus Saves. (He saves as often as he can, because, in his infinite wisdom, he knows that if he doesn't, sooner or later he's going to have to do a heck of a lot of stuff all over again.) So I got into the habit of saving very often. every time I stopped for a smoke, or just stopped to think for a second. It's a good habit to get into, even if your software isn't crash prone. That's it for now, except for this: "It is not possible to get good results without the proper respect for one's tools or one's weapons." -Miyamoto Musashi, from his treatise, 'The Book of Five Rings'