Well, on rendering in Poser...the program 'hangs' and never completes a render (have to ctl+alt+deleate to get out and reports Poser as not responding), be it a complex scene or just one simple object. I've uninstalled, defragged the drive, reinstalled, patched and turn off all non-essential programs and run cacheman as CL support suggested. Its rendered other times, but won't render textures on things such as shoes, jewelry, groundplane (yes, groundplane is checked and I never fiddle with any of the axis)I refuse to upgrade to Win2k both because of a personal decision (good article on the matter: http://arachnoid.com/boycott/index.html)and because it doesn't support half of my other programs I run on a regular basis (older games, utilities,etc) shrug I'll eventually get something rendered...even if its just faces with low rez textures :o)