Hehehe...I'm not into animation at all Mike :). And so far, it runs like a dream! No problems with the poser.exe right from the get-go. They musta fixed that... I don't know if it's because of Windows XP or because of the Vue 4 update or both, but it's been running like a champ! I've been PURPOSELY doing things that I know always choked Vue before (like my tendency to fly around in the material editor ;)). No problems yet. Laurie