"Why would it be different in Vue? Strange...."

I dunno - that IS strange!

Gonna open it back up tonight in C4D and see what IT claims the count to be, but it looks like I'm over the 100k limit I heard advised.

Markschum - It also sounds like the advice was pretty good, though - if it's already starting to bog down P7 I should keep any further enhancements fairly light.

I THINK I can also drop the poly-count a bit more here and there. Get rid of a coupla loop cuts that might be just for extra smoothing - they might not be needed.

My list is getting bigger - thanks folks, and keep 'em coming!

-Lew