operaguy, the test render did take a long time and I aborted halfway through since I was heading out for the day and wanted to get the main one started thinking it may be finished by the time I came back. Just would have been nice to be able to tell if it was still going- even a %complete value would have helped - its so hard to see whether a bar has moved along any. JR, I tried the Alt-Ctrl-Del as you suggested and the value for Poser is 50. Do you think its still going?