Poser doesn't always crash, and yes it often does keep going when I click the don't keep looking button. Its not consistent, perhaps because its a buggy program. Bum files seem to be the biggest culprit, with poser much more likely to crash when looking for a .bum file. I have XP, but it happened with WinME too.

But I'm not talking about "oops...I accidently forget texture 2 of 7". I absolutely understand that people might accidently miss something, and I just email or IM them to let them know there's a problem. However, in this case no textures were included and the readme even says no textures are provided. Yet when I try to use it, textures requested, poser crashes. I checked the cr2 and there are twelve references to texture and bump maps all hard coded to a "G" drive. How many people have a G drive? No wonder Poser choked. Blaming Poser or my OS for this kind of thing is a cop out. Expecting any program to run properly when you program them to load non-existant files on non-existent drives is stupid. Garbage in-garbage out applies to Poser too you know. If anything, I grateful that Poser can often recover from these programming errors.

I'm sorry, but that kind of thing really is giving me a box of broken dishes. The G drive reference is a fresh twist, and although most freebies work great this isn't the first time I've gotten downloads with no textures that ask for them when you load the model...that's why I brought it up. "It's free" isn't an excuse to be lazy, and giving me something that crashes my program isn't "generous". The klez worm is "free" too, I doubt anyone is very happy when they get it.