"I develop custom apps for Access databases." Hey, so do I! :) Er, I used to anyway. Quit about three years ago. Maybe the newer versions are screwy, but not the ones I used. I think Access 2000 was my last. Anyway, I have some pretty big operations still running fine on the stuff I did back then. No problems; no complaints. Neither have I ever had Pshop freeze on a file. The worst I've had was the "Invalid File Type" message. And maybe if they'd update Poser once in a while it wouldn't need hacks?