BAM, Suppose that shoes and socks were melded to the foot... how would you then decouple them if you needed to make a change? One of the reasons Poser 4 is better than P3 is that you can change the clothing and props. You would be amazed at what has IK preinstalled in it. This is why you have to check the shoes and gloves and dresses as well as the main figures. ::grrrr:: Just turn it off everywhere you see it, and life will be simpler. If you do need it to animate a character, you can switch it back on later. IK problems mostly affect shoes, but hair is a close second. Dresses wrapping around legs is another good twist to the problem. It is often triggered when importing a prop (especially 3ds). It can also trigger when you apply a pose. I don't know if applying MATs will send this stuff flying (I prefer to set my materials manually), but regular poses do. You can do a couple of things to help hunt down the missing hair or flying boot. I set my auxilliary camera fairly well back so that it takes in the entire scene, including my render camera. I learned this trick back in RDS days, where I lost more cameras than the space crew. If the hair is within a hundred miles of its owner, it will usually show up on the auxilliary view. You should also be able to use the hand cameras as bloodhounds if you change their "point at" command and tweak their settings. You'd have to keep tweaking them, but that might help (if you can see it, you can get it in the dials, and massage it home from there). Carolly