Well, that's where I'd look first. Keep in mind that when Poser loads those textures into RAM, in uncompresses them -- so, in effect, they will take up just as much space in your RAM as if they were plain old bitmaps of the same size or larger (it will load them up into a Power of two factor, so it will look for 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, etc and go the the largest size that accomodates the textures -- and that's how much space in RAM it will take up as a bitmap). So when ya lock up on loading textures, the first place to look is there. The reason it really keyed on me, though, was all the figures. Habit makes me suspicious of figures since most of the decent textures available in the marketplace are gargantuan (but gorgeous!) and loadin up several figures with that on it would kill even the best computer in Poser.

thou and I, my friend, can, in the most flunkey world, make, each of us, one non-flunkey, one hero, if we like: that will be two heroes to begin with. (Carlyle)