Thank you all! I am very impressed by the quality and speed of your responses. As I indicated, I have a 2.5 GHz computer and 1 GB of RAM. The render times you provided are similar to mine, but your Poser 5 loading times are all much faster. From what you have said, it appears the problem is the size of my single RUNTIME folder which is 3.8GB. (Yeah, I know it's pretty big, but I can't seem to help myself with all the cool stuff on Renderosity. So the answer appears to divide things up into separate RUNTIMES. I didn't realize that would make a difference. So what is the downside of having separate runtimes? Does this break anything? Thanks again.