Pam.. sigh..i wish you had come to us before you shut that file. use ctrl-alt-z and you can go back quite a few steps behind..even if you have saved it. once you get it back to where you want it, resave it or save it as another file.

never mind..we all go thru this... and man..it teaches patience. lots of it.

but i do say.. if we ever had a choice, i think most of us here would say..ban rendering and give it to us straight.. someway or the other. one button click and whoop bang.. the rendering gets done for us in one second. soem dream. maybe in bryce's 10th version. or 20th since even maya has rendering blues. :-P

have a lovely new year... everyone...and may your year turn out to be a beautiful one...