ok, guys... girls... none gender life forms. I seem to of solved my problems. I did a scan disk, in thorough mode. Solved a couple of problems that way. My disk sped up anyway, poser was still annoying. I ran Norton Disk Doctor, which is basically the same as scan disk, right? oh well, that found 1 more error and fixed it for me. Then i ran Speed Disk. and voila... all seems fine now. yay! So thanks for everyones help, its really greatly appreciated. Hopefully sometime i can produce something in poser thats worth showing you : we'll see i guess. Take care all, and thanks again. Duckie.