Hi, softcris.  I visited the site you've linked, and it leads to the Hitachi website, where there are no .wav files readily evident.  I think they must have been taken down?  But I'll see if I can find anything which will assess the health of my hard drive.  I hadn't considered the possibility that I might be having hardware problems.  All of my other software runs fine.  Only Poser 8 has problems.  Posers 5 and 7 are quite cooperative.

I suppose it could be Runtime bloat, if that's actually something which can create problems in P8.  I really don't have very large libraries, but I do have several Runtimes linked up.  And, again, Poser 7 has all of those Runtimes, minus the new one for P8 (to which I haven't added any new content), and it runs without any trouble at all.

The grinding noise isn't anything unusual.  Apparently Vista grinds the drive this way a lot.  I hate it, I can't make it stop, and now Poser 8 seems to have run afoul of this wretched trait of MS Vista.  Hmm.

Thank you.  :D

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Cage can be an opinionated jerk who posts without thinking.  He apologizes for this.  He's honestly not trying to be a turkeyhead.

Cage had some freebies, compatible with Poser 11 and below.  His Python scripts were saved at archive.org, along with the rest of the Morphography site, where they were hosted.