Rats! I just tried your suggestion right now, but still a no go. I also realized after I had posted this message that it not only crashes when I try to import something, buyt just seleting the File/Open button also will crash it straight out. I reinstalled the patch again, just incase it got corrupted or something, but that didn't do anything and then I tried the thing you just mentioned and still nothing. I'm open to more suggestions? I was supprised though, that I couldn't seem to find ANY sort of Help info from their own site of the people who make Poser, that e-fronteir site. While I wait to see if you have any other ideas, I guess I'll do a complete uninstall and then a reboot and then clean out the registry with regisrty machanic and reboot again and then reinstall all the updates and the patches and all that and see if that fixes things? Right? I'm too new to Poser, so I am still in the complete newbie stage at this point. thanx too...........md :) .