Thanks for all the info Martin, Freakachu, and WillF. I ran another 3DS file through the converter-and presto! It worked! I can't explain WHY it did not before-unless my System was corrupted by some Poserbug-short of crashing. Which is odd since I HAD rebooted and tried again! Another oddity, with 4.02.116 I had texture "request" boxes with the texture name off center. IE, when I opened a downloaded Cr2 or PZ3 for the first time and got the "Where is Whatever.pict?" message, the title was so far to the left of the box that all I saw was Where is er.pict?" It stopped doing that-and that was repeatable reboot after reboot. Really strange. I have 4.02.117 now. If I give it AT least 150 mb it seems stable enough. When I tried to render the Nerds Chainmail woman+ allie's hair with 100MB (of real RAM) alloted it would crash with type 11 and or type 2 errors. Rebooting and alloting 150Mb (VM switched ON) it worked. Eric Walters