thanks for the input everyone. its aprecated.  not sure where i'll be headed exactly but I'd like to find my own little genre to fall into again, making a specific chain of products.  I have a older copy of vue around here somewhere, played with it a little but never really got into it.  Been mostly using Cinema 4D and 3D Studio Max 8.0 this past year,  Doing alot of super low poly modeling (500-1.5k polys) along with some low poly ones as well. 

Its time for a change though, need something new to help spark up my creative side again, its been abit dry lately and honestly been driving me nuts as well lol ;).  Anyhow thanks for the input :)