Thanks Carolly for the eyeopener.:) Here's the funny thing. Before the crash I had an image of the drive Poser5 was on which I restored to the new hard drive - knowing that the programs will have to be reinstalled anyway. Went through a bit of a nightmare installing and re-installing xp and SR2 till all worked and hadn't begun to restore any programs till I got it sorted. Meanwhile started Poser5 once on its separate partition ..and...it worked. Hehe..all without being in the new registry and all. So I never thought that the SR4.1 might not be functional too... But wait a minute... how would the Curious website know what version I do or don't have on my machine just by wanting to change the e-mail addy on their website? Ah, such mysteries. Curious Labs is still non-communicado though they've acknowleged receiving this latest e-mail too. I think maybe it's too much of a mess for them to sort through for one wittle person. All things considered, tea-leaves and chicken guts included - maybe I'm just not meant to have Poser 6. Thanks :) Masha