indeed it is! ~mutters We uninstalled and reinstalled 3 times. This weekend my husband is going to do some test with my video card (only 3 weeks old the sucker will go back!) and trade out our cards to see if that might be the problem. No matter what I do, it causes errors then dumps the computer to reboot. If im lucky! Last one gave me a blue screen and I am about lost as to what in the world is going on. New 80 gb hd, so shouldnt be anything amiss there. Oh well will see what the weekend brings, and continue to read tutorials and examples. Thank you for your help tremendously. Safe journey and blessed be Myl