If anyone touches my system without my sayso I go ballistic. It's fairly hardy - but I have all sorts of weird kludges running to keep it happy - so an inexperianced user can make the whole thing bomb in a bad way. Which is why a) my system is locked down 6 ways to sunday and b) I backup all working files once a week regular and c) all my downloaded stuff get stored on zip until I hit 500 megs and then the whole collection gets recompiled (for organization) and reburned to CD. I'm up to the 4th burn and four cd's of poser stuff. Sorry to hear about your loss - and I must say the timing (considering the closure of Poserworld and Fairywood) is pretty vile :P Go shoot the well meaning person. It's justified :)