Well its been a year since I have used 3.1 but you can select to import the animation sequence as one image and AE will put it together for you...then you dont have to put them in one frame at a time. Are you on a mac or a pc? I can find out the sequence...I think we still have some macs with AE 3.1 on it around here. I think you just select the first frame helloXXX.psd and then select an option that says import as sequence or something and it will find them and import them as one .mov it might not be in the import file command..it might be in the prefrences. AE 3.1 had a piss poor interface...4.1 and 5.0 are like new programs b/c of the more user friendly interface. Worse case scenerio I'll email you my # and well figure out. I know you can do it, its a pain to figure out the templete, but once its done its no problem anymore.