grin yep thats what I meant.. Well what I tried so far was to set up the new comp & poser program settings the same as on the old comp. the only diff being that the old is 95 & new is 98 though I cant imagine that would do it. I wrote to metacreation but no answer there yet. good suggestion though. That was what I thought too. new twist... I made the charcter on the new comp, then I zipped the rsr & cr2...moved them to the old comp,it showed up as te white circle..opened the character in a pic, looked good... readded it to the library.. the icon came up as it should. rezipped & transported it to the new comp & now it shows... hmmm looks like Ill have to save my work & uninstall then reinstall poser I hope.