Yeah but as you can see, even if I choose the jpg extension from the dropdown window, it still insists in maintaining the psd extension, and it is this image that gives the error msg upon beeing reloaded...mind you that I have worked with photoshop for a long time and Im used to saving and converting files and so on...but tis behavior has surfaced recently...this is not a typical photoshop behavior...and it doesnt escape my mind that this problem is tied to the one I described above...thanks for your time anyway.