hey, "ysvry", thanx for the tip. I did a search over at the forums & came up with an optimized 2.43. I loaded it & so far it seems to be working pretty good. the invert zoom doesn't seem to work, which is annoying just because of what I'm used to for so long & "Q" doesn't give me a "Quit blender". but it seems like it wants to work. I haven't really given it a work out yet, but this is better than nothing. I'll have to try an optimized 2.44 when someone builds one..........thanx again.........johnd
P.S. I have a G-Force graphics card, could that have been the problem?