i have the same problems and i have about 15 GBs of free space, 640 mb of ram, and a powerful processor. i dont think it has to do with your system. its just bad programming on the part of metacreations. i guess you just have to live with it. everyone ive spoken to who has poser has problems that are similar. another problem that i get is that after ive been running poser for an hour or two and i exit, my other programs start giving me visual basic runtime errors, so i have to reboot. its a pain in the ass but if you call their tech support theyll only lay the blame on your system like all software manufacturers do -- they never own up to their crappy coding.