ROFL, walther! I wish I could load 750 mil poly's! That should read 750,000! Anyhoo, I did try saving all the Poser peeps as .vob's and that did not help either! As for the "waiting for VUE to OK the model", I did experience this before and had to wait for the prog to OK my Posers, but this time 'round VUE just wasn't gonna cooperate '-)! I'm wondering, walther...if you or anyone else could let me know what settings you are using as far as OpenGL so I could have an idea of what I should be looking for re: a possible starting point! I have now gone back into Vue4 and currently have had no problems with this scene which is now up to 105Mb and well over a million poly's and thus far no signs of sluggishness...fingers crossed as I jinx myself here...LOL!
Looking forward to any further suggestions, ideas?

steve