ablc; Have you run a clean up utility, such as the WinDoctor in Norton Utilities? Windows leaves a =lot= of junk in the registry after an install, and the NT kernel based versions have those private desktops for each user. File links are placed there, and document links, and they can -really- cause trouble if the get cross-linked into something they shouldn't. This might explain why you're having trouble with the PZ3 imports. The NT kernel has some funky file protection ideas, and if it thinks part of something is supposed to be protected.... I've never seen -any- Windows installation that didn't throw up a bunch of dead desktop links, unfound files and dll's, missing helpfiles, and the like, even from a clean install. Another thing to check is exactly what kind of CD-ROM drive you loaded Vue from. There is something tricky about the installer that makes it unstable if you rip it from a CD, and from what I've seen, the CD-DVD drives of the early types can have random file corruption trouble with the installer.