Yeah, that's what I'm afraid of. I'm really trying to avoid the reinstall until after I pick up the new external drive, but if I'm not going to be able to work at all ... ugh. It's definitely not the usual .obj error on the first one, I tried deleting the .rsr just in case, newp. And I've used that character over and over without problems till now. The second loads everything just fine, THEN throws errors when I try to render. Feh.