No, this is the first time I've ever had this happen with any version. And so far I haven't gotten any virtual memory messages but that's because I haven't rendered more than one figure or object. I always forget to turn off virus and WinPatrol and I have 33 things running in the background, or at least, that's what I'm told. And Photoshop, which I need to have running at the same time, is a problem. And I've had bad crashes with P6 that have killed my mouse. But the traveling hair...that's a new one. If I didn't have to do all my work over again it would have been funny. Watching it go lower and lower and I couldn't do anything to stop it. Oh well...no big thang. One thing I do notice. The memory problem is still there and has something to do with the loss of something with each successive render. Just opening the program is OK. Render once and it's OK. But render 5 or 6 times and it's worse with each render and then eventually crashes for no apparent reason. So the renders are killing or using up or adding to temp folder or something that I'm to computer illiterate to know. But I've seen it happen every time and I know it's there.