Lost Johnny - LOL! I know the feeling about losing information when I rebuild! But I have a server that I use in the house to backup everything of any importance to me! It's just a PII 266 with 43gigs of space on it. But it's usefull for back up and one day network renders. You might want to CONSIDER going to a NT based OS. Win 2k and NT have better memory management along with some other nice features. kaom, I know how you feel about getting a new computer! I've been itching to get myself something better than what I currently have. I'm using a: PIII 600 128megs Ram 10gig HD 16meg ATI card Win 2k Unfortionately I'm doing my graphics on a laptop :( but it seems to work fine for now until I get some money and then I will invest in a new machine! Guess I should have put more money into the computer instead of the software!!! Oh well, I enjoy it...it can just be a little slow at times. Jared