Hi Flywaver! :) I'm not the overly technical sort and Vue 4 HAS had is share of annoying bugs, some of which can't even be duplicated by 2 different people, BUT...the fact that you are running XP really makes me suspicious. For one, Vue 4 was optimized for Windows ME, 98 and 2000. And since I am one of the folks who NEVER, EVER will put any Microsoft program in beta on my machine, I tend to think it may be XP more than anything else, unless someone else has been having the same troubles as yourself. Until others get XP and can test it out themselves, you may have little help for your crashes if it turns out to be the OS. There may be something about the operating system that Vue just doesn't like. It's never the been the most stable of programs in any version ;). Sorry I couldn't be more help. Laurie