I wouls select parts of your scene and export them as objects. This way u can salvage ur scene in bits. then import it into a clean empty scene, a bit at a time. Reposition it the way it was if neccesary, and save parts of ur scene in seperate bryce files. Now when u want to render everything together, u just merge the partial scenes before hititng the render button...

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