It did do it before and it's doing it again and I'd like to be able to use the texture filtering as it does make nicer images, especially the hair. Karen, I did try the displacement and it still doesn't come out as nicely as having texture filtering turned on unfortunately. I guess the other option is to render the character minus the hair without texture filtering turned on and then render the hair seperate but that's not always possible. I'll just have to either muddle thru it or figure out how to fix the character files so the seams don't show.