I really appreciate your help, Eric. :-) You pointed me in the right direction and I thank you for that! I also discovered a quick fix (at least for the problem in my water) and that was to change layer 2 of the bump function from "Wave" to "Water (calm)" on their list. It generates almost identical water to the default except WITHOUT LINES! - yaaay! Then I saved this new material as "Default Water 2" in my custom folder for future use. I NEVER would have found that solution without your help, THANKS.