Hey! I recently had the same "blue screen" thing happening where it would say I had a fatal exception OE at blah blah blah. Someone told me to check my "default" printer....apparently RDS didn't like some printers or maybe their drivers I'm not sure. So I installed a "fake" generic printer ( this is the actual name in the win 98 printer list [generic text only]) and made it the default printer. Then I went into RDS 5.0.2 and tried to render and Viola! It works now. So please try this and see if that helps ok? I hope it does....even though I have RDS 5.0.2 I think it would do the same thing. Let me know..