One last thought...you know you don't have to render the entire animation at one time. One way to do it is to render it in sections and then take the parts and turn out a full AVI using VirtualDub,  www.**virtualdub.org. ** I have not used it in this capacity yet, but I use sometimes to do loops from other sources and it does very well.

I have heard that it is also usefull when you want to do batch processing of animation cells. I have one render that took me a long time to do and I messed up some frames towards the end, so instead of doing the entire thing again, I am just going to redo the frames that need it and recycle the good frames.

One other program that helps me is Rname-it. When I have a bunch of files I need to rename or reposition this helps me rename them to put them in the order I need. If you try any of these and have problems, I will help you as much as I can.  You can pick up Rname-it at www.pcworld.com.**
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