OK that 7 minutes was on my computer @ work..p3 500 with 256megs of ram. HOWEVER..for some reason that computer keept giving me a nil pointer error after it rendered frame 2 of the animation. I went home and reinstalled it on my home pc and it works..dont know why..but @ home on an athlon tb 900 with 128megs of ram its takeing just under 3min a frame. I bought another 128megs of ram this week but I guess I have to wait for this animation to finish rendering tomorrow b4 I can use it :) btw: in my new tiger direct catalog pc133 256meg ram sticks are only 125bucks......makes me mad I just bought a 128megs....