OK... as long as your minimum and preferred allotments are both decent, you should be fine there. Don't run PhotoShop at the same time, because it is even more of a piggy at the memory trough. Being new, you shouldn't need to defrag it yet, but I'm wondering if all those crashed files have left temporary copies of themselves scattered around to trip over? (It's been so long since Poser has crashed on me, that I forgot the extension used.) Next question... that spiffy new machine is running 10.3 something? And your Poser4 needs to run under "classic". Are you booting into 9.2 on days when you plan to use Poser, or just clicking the alias and hoping that the machine knows enough to select the right OS? Carolly