Thanks for the reply, bruno021. After your suggestion, I tried converting all the Poser objects in my scene to low res polygon objects (using bake to polygons) because they are away from the camera enough to not make a difference. The polygon count stayed close to 9.8 million. Still the same problems. I also posted my message to e-on's forum and Eric Holbrook (a great Vue artist in my opinion and one who I admire) posted a reply which basically says that I was right - Vue simply has too many bugs to handle rendering my scene at the resolution I desire. It is very sad that such a creative program can't handle this. I guess I'll seek out another program.