Thanks much, y'all - if nothing else I feel better knowing I'm not the only one this happens to! I've got '98 - I've tried restarting the computer about a bazillion times, made sure nothing else was running that might be using resources and I will try the display style thingy. Now, for two (more) dumb questions - how do I check to see if Poser is finding everything, and what's the keyboard shortcut to render? (I looked in the book and didn't find anything :-P) Sigh, guess I'll have to start saving up pennies for XP, and limp along on 98 workarounds in the meantime.... sweet