Thanks Lou. I took a look at that thread, but it doesn't seem to apply to me. It's for Poser 6 and poser 6 has been having memory troubles from what I've seen. I have Poser 5. I did take note of the efrontier link and will look that over this afternoon. It seems to have some good information in there. I did manage to finally get my scene together by placing the 3 images on the background where I want them, deleting the background and 2 figures and rendering one figure each time. It took awhile, but in the end it was faster than trying to do the whole scene at once. I'm pretty good in PSP so I managed to get the figures in with some perspective shadows and deleting bits and pieces of the figures so that they look like they blend into the background shrubbery. I'm not feeling well today, so I'll tackle the background on a square tomorrow and see how the advice I got for that pans out.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi