Thanks folks! I think I will go ahead on the SR2...I understand the firefly is better... my new "magic mirror" materials may render without crashing then! :) Yes...am so cautious of the 9 update...at the very least I will copy out my whole vue application folder/files...update manually and then if it does not work, slap my original application stuff back in. Heard a few vue-ers did that safely. Still thinking...

Life Requires Assembly and we all know how THAT goes!