pogmahone, i don't choose LWO from the dropdown when i click on import object a window opens with All Formats in the dropdown, i tried it on LWO and still got the same error. Bryster, what patch, if you are on about the update from v5 to v5.01 or which ever it is i have the update but never installed it after upgrading my harddrive because i didn't want to lose everything i placed in my libaries.