V7 - I hope you're right. softriver - Thanks much for the offer, I'll be there tomorrow. However, my problems aren't with the dynamic hair as much as they are with firefly. And you need to render in firefly to use the hair. Excellent pic, but--no offense--it's just one figure with hair. I've tried every combination of settings in firefly and it still can't handle complex, multi-figure scenes...which is what I do most. My system: XP Pro Dual Xeon 1.7's (yes, I know p5 don't use 'em) 1 gig o' ram 100 gig HD, 50 free nothing else running but p5.