its under File/Options/General Preferences tab.... (i have pro studio, and never looked at this before upgrading, so crossing fingers it'll work for you, Red Dog) - i found what gill was saying about the create empty scene in there....

as for the freebie ecosystems - dig in the free section here, there's a few i do believe.  and hopefully your wife will come around - ecosystems is sooooooooooooo worth it.  if it helps - tell her the upgrade right now to pro is half off, and you'd be saving even more money getting all 5 modules at once rather than one at a time.  it costs the same (on sale) for the complete upgrade as it does for the one botanica module  (think thats the expensive module - either that or that or the ecosystems one is the expensive one) - either way, its like getting the other 4 modules free =D  (and who can resist getting things for free?)

good luck =D

Rarer than a hairy egg and madder than a box of frogs....

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