Guitta: It seems that the language resources are not being transferred correctly - that's one of the (numerous) problems that are caused by having updates available in all languages at the same time. On the other hand, I'm sure our international users appreciate not having to wait for the release of localized updates.
Anyway, you said your OS is in French. What language was Vue 4.03 before you installed the update? French also?

Audity: the program is not going to run if the update failed part way through. We are currently modifying our updater so that if it fails for any reason, the program being updated is automatically restored to its previous state.

Sacred Rose: we have found that some BUM files referenced by PZ3 scenes are actually not read correctly by Poser either, although Poser doesn't complain. In such cases, Vue will stupidly report an error... That is, for instance, the case with "P4 woman bump" and "P4 man bump" in the "Poser 4 textures" folder.
Is that one of the files that isn't loading in Vue 4?

MikeJ: does the same thing happen when you press "File" in the other browsers? (say, the atmosphere browser?) What about loading a picture into the material editor?

Uroboros: can you do the following for me:

• run the update
• make a backup copy of the "Environment" sub-folder before running Vue
• run Vue, close it, and try relaunching.
• if that fails, copy the contents of the Environment backup to the current Environment. Try launching again. Does it work?
  If it does, then it means that Vue is corrupting one of its own files. If it doesn't then it could be XP messing around with the Vue dll's.

Thanks to all for trying the update. It's only with your help that we can get them to work right...

Steve.