Here's the status now...

I've installed all my software and drivers, set up all my files (as in Ive taken my backup files off the other system, so everything is in one "home" now) and even reinstalled Poser and all my content brand spanking new (took eons, 1st resetting at Daz3d, then re-downloading and then reinstalling =B). So I was ready spaghetti to do some serious Carrara-ing...

When I opened Carrara, it acted VERY buggy. This was a clean install mind you, installed on the new system, then uninstalled and removed all files from hdd and cleaned my hdd and my registry. Then did another clean install...

Immediately I could see something wrong. It asked if I wanted to use my runtime, and pretty much froze from there. I went to the file menu and it gave me an error (while giving graphic "blobs" and pixelated spots), and crashes/freezes shorty after doing anything... Before it would let me enter my serial and carry on normally, not I cant do anything w/ it...

The last thing I did in Carrara before it went pineapple is that I did change the scratchdisk to 100MB, I was glancing through preferances making slight changes and then it all started and hasnt calmed even after the clean install to let me make heads or tails of the situation...

But to answer your questions, I did recently add Sparrowhawkes plugins to Carrara when it was on my other system, but honestly it never gave any issue or problem until I started rendering, and I seriously doubt the problem lies w/i those plug-ins...

As soon as I can get Carrara back up and running, Ill take out the anything glows lights... When you mention "add glow" are you refering to taking advanatge of the glow channel of the material of the glowing object w/o using anything glows lights?!?

All the help is great guys, thanks alot!

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