Oh, and just to make it even worse - Macromedia made the shockwave (or is it Flash) format open so a lot of other programs (including Poser Pro Pack) can use it. Adobe has Live motion for instance but personally I prefer to use Macromedia's Flash program to make my animations. Export as a .jpeg sequence and import. The program is a bit complex but once you've got your head around the timeline and the fact that you can have timelines within timelines you'll find many different methods of creating wat you want. Incidentally, I wouldn't go to the Flash newsgroups, those guys don't encourage newbies. There's money in this stuff and that tends to spook people. I've seen some horrible replies to posts there.