Ok one more thing if you dont mind....
I was under the impression that more memory would solve my rendering problems.   I had 512 and removed half of that and replaced with a 1gb stick of mem which gave me 1.256 of ram and am planing to add another GB this weekend.
My question is this;  simply put is ram the problem or not?   
Dose more ram me less problems when rendering, or is the problem due to some sort of generic problem with Poser or my Operating system itself that can never really be fixed?
Hope my question makes sense. 
Im from the school of thought that 90% of the solution to any problem is first knowing what the problem is or how to ask the question which in this case Im afraid Im not sure I am doing.  :)
Thanks again 
Steel