OK, I admit it, I am stubborm. The 4.03 upgrade did it. I guess the memory management fix was a difference between the beta and CL versions. This new system has 1 gig of RAM and Poser pretty much has a 60 gig HD to itself. This musta crossed the 2 gig . Now, will it render faster? Got on line too, The Cox support said I just should have plugged the modem in and not installed their software, their XP software version has bugs and XP will do it all anyway. Who knew? Now, on to Painter 6.