thanks heaps you guys, going to have a nosey in the galleries again and see if i can pick up something.  i bought the vue 6 revealed as well, which has taught me about the camera work so far.  But you know what was funny - I put a backdrop in Vue 7, got a nice pattern of pretty pinstriping (supposed to be clouds).  So then I closed that down, put it into Vue 6 and it worked perfect (though i have to figure out the zoom numbers).  I cracked up laughing with the Vue 7 version, because the pinstriping didn't look that bad actually LOL