I have Poser installed on a separate drive. And, yes, the file sizes are huge. But using a high speed CD-(re)writer, poser is still relatively easy to back-up or (re)-install; it just takes some time. Switching to a new computer platform last month, i managed to get my complete poser installation (about 4 Gigs worth of files) on a new drive in couple of hours. I didn't re-install poser from the original disks, just copied the lot from my back-up CD-ROM's and it works fine. I think there are other, more pressing matters to attend to regarding the poser software : maybe include a "true" renderer, a better memory manager, optimisation for new processor types (even my Ghz PC can grind to a halt when composing a relatively simple Poser scene, whereas the same scene doesn't "pose" any performance problems in programs such as Max or Lightwave) Quality of rendering : it takes a lot of practise, and even within Poser, the results can be very impressive. Play around with lighting & shadows, camera settings and textures,... and pretty soon you'll see the quality of your Poser renders improve dramatically.