That might be part of the problem, 9.0.4. I'm scheduled for a new Mac G4 when they upgrade the lab this summer. It seems like 9.0 has major problems allocating memory for big programs, I tried Curious Labs suggetions about setting the memory usage (yep guys, that message you see is really intended for Mac users, where you can chage the memory the program uses!) to 150,000 minimum, 300,00 preferred, I'm not sure it is a good thing to put the prefferred setting into Virtual memory, though, as I only have 256 Mb on this Mac. I was going to upgrade the Mac labs to 9.2 (?, the highest you can upgrade the 9.0 to for free), but Gee, you have to run three upgrades after installing the O.S!