heyas; no, im pretty sure the rebuilding the shortcut solves the 'poser doesn't remember my preferences' glitch. it had something to do with something in the link pointing to metacreations, vs the update patch, which tries to point to curiouslabs. once you get the shortcut straightened out on where your poser is, it will remember your prefs. steve, thats nuts! why do you have all that empty space?? whadda you got a widescreen home theater hooked up to your computer? :) oh, you change the background colour by grabbing the fill tool and clicking on the background. pick a colour. (mine's usually sky blue, sea blue, purple, or pink, depending on my mood or what i'm working on. i have dark grey and dark green too, but i dont use those as much. and one ui dot for animation setup.) i dont know if there is a way to change the text colour.