Well thank you, Beck and Rynn! :) Anyhow, I woke up this morning and I suddenly remembered two very important things: 1) I have a CD full of Vue 3.1 scenes, many of which contained alot of my models I made, as well as materials and atmospheres. Of course, I still lost my .3DS versions of those models, but I can still use them in Vue at least. :) 2) The first things I did after getting 'doze reinstalled yesterday were to reinstall Zone Alarm and Mc Affee Virus Scan. So I suddenly remembered that I had had Mc Affee set to NOT check "unobtrusively" (as they say!) for viruses in the background in my previous installation. I checked, and sure enough, in my haste yesterday, I had that enabled. I guess those veggie files look like viruses or something, but sure enough, disabling the "background" virus scanning solved everything, and now all my plants are registered and working. :) So naturally the next thing I wondered is would my fresh re-install of Vue 4 and Poser 4 have made the .BUM import any different? Sadly, no. I still can't import .BUM files. Oh well... I guess after rushing and slaving over this PC all day yesterday (about 19 hours of tweaking, re-installing stuff and searching through CD's, by the time I called it a day), I guess I was too mentally drained to think clearly anymore. Things are looking much better today so far. :)