Thanks to everyone for yur suggestions and input. Unfortunately, I'm still in the hole. I just purchased Techtool Pro and it's giving me no memory errors (or any kind of errors). I've done all that you have suggested above. The only thing I can think of now is that (as someone suggested) I'm opening the same image over and over and this is affecting something within the program. If you guys have the time, can you please post the render time it'll take you to render a "normal" image. Please post, time, resolution and processor type. Also, it normal anti-alias is applied. This is just to get an idea so that I can do some comparisons. Again, thanks to everyone.