Hey cut the guy some slack. He's been working on this for several years. Anybody who has been working on a big project for several years will want some time off, especially if they have lost their backups of over 75 % of their work. I know this from experience. I was working on a computer game for 2.5 years when both my hardrive died and 3 of the 4 dvd backups became unreadable. Worse yet my firewire 120 gig hard drive (backup five) became corrupted and had to be reformatted. I'm sure that once Bryce 6 is out and Len has a chance to play with it he may reconsider his position on reviving Pro-render. Personally, while I have not had a chance to read the manual Len has posted, I do intend to read it and look forward the stuff he will be posting later. Sorry for your loss man. Best wishes. David