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But I guess if after you close poser and all else works fine right away, perhaps I was barking up the wrong tree.
When you say P8 is stuck on the screen is this after you closed in the task manager? LIke the screen is not refreshing?

Well, first of all, "all else works fine" while Poser is running AND while it is frozen.  It isnt like my entire OS is freezing and as soon as Poser is killed through the Task Manager, everything starts working again.
Just wanted to make that clear, as it is kind of important to this issue.

Second of all, the program is stuck on the screen until I kill it through Task Manager.  Once frozen, P8 will stick on the screen, and cannot by closed by pressing the X on its window (its not even clickable) or by right clicking the taskbar and selecting CLOSE.  I also cannot minimize or maximize the window, which is what I was actually meaning by "stuck on the screen".
The only way to close the program is to kill it.

;P Also just to say it, I have a CoolerMaster Hyper 212 Plus heat sink on my GPU; AND I have a ThermalTake chassis with 2 230 fans (top and side), a 120 fan in the back, and a 120 in the front to cool the harddrives... if anything is overheating, I would be shocked, Ha ha ha ha :D
http://www.coolermaster-usa.com/product.php?product_id=2923