okay, FINE! i neutered norton, i went to render my image. i was going to make a print-sized render to disk, but that ain't flying. SO i said, fine, i'll just render to screen as large as i can. only took an hour and a half. and it's all rendered, and anti-aliased, and the glow is rendered and anti-aliased and everything is fine. so i press the button to save the image. poof, it vanishes. so i go to the menu and do export image: colour picture, and poof, my vue viewports vanish. after that, everything is GONE, no picture, no scene, no saving options... just POOF. ::SIGH::