Yeah, my settings look nothing like that in the material room. I have the bangs turned off through a material setting. I even went in and re-loaded a fresh load of the hair by itself with the same lights...still phantom bangs even with no head LOL. I am using the PHC materials to get that black and red combo. But even with just the hair itself loaded, it looks nothing like the picture you have as far as the nodes (see what I saw below). I am trying to get the EZ skin 3, but I cannot get the site to send me a confirmation e-mail. I'll keep trying to get it and see if that helps. I will also try the awesome render settings listed that you use. Worse case scenario? I just use firefly :) Thanks!