I don't really have an answer. But I do have a few questions: 1.)how old is your computer? Those pictures look like 256 or possibly 64k color mode. 2.)in Windows Explorer. The pose files are not supposed to be associated with Poser. Are you trying to open them this way? 3.)did you completely uninstall Poser before you updated it? If you've updated Poser4 at all. It's best to uninstall it completely, Install it fresh from the CD, then apply the 4.03 update patch. ScottA