If you spend that much time on creating a face, I sure as heck would think you'd want to save it when you get it right before you do anything else. Not only to avoid the problem you mention, but to avoid all sorts of other bad things that could happen - program crash, computer lock up, power outage. When you get the face down save it to a file! Either save the whole figure, use a pose dot, memorize the figure, create a morph from the head (my current mode of operation), or save your face in the faces library (the quickest method I think). The same thing has happened to me many times before, but after a second of cursing the pose maker I just hit the face library and put the face right back on. Hope this helps, Unzipped