Thanks for responding everyone! I was starting to think it was just me with this problem. And like ecccoman, my poser machine only sees the internet for vista service updates (about once every 6 months). Likewise, no firewall or AV and the Aero/UAC crap got shut down 5 minutes after I booted Vista for the first time ;)  I'm gonna try upgrading IE first, then see about PhilC's gadget. Either way, I'm going to be hard pressed to pay another cent just to get this sad excuse for a $250 rendering program to act the way it should!

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AMD FX-9590 4.7ghz 8-core, 32gb of RAM, Win7 64bit, nVidia GeForce GTX 760

PoserPro2012, Photoshop CS4 and Magix Music Maker

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...and when the day is dawning...I have to say goodbye...a last look back into...your broken eyes.