Cas, it didn't let me exit after File/New either. It froze as shown in the screen shot above. Thank the lord for XP Pro; ctrl-alt-del works every time to shut down an errant program. Congrats on your registration. I wasn't so lucky. Mitch, I have a Dual Pentium 4 1.7 ghz Xeons with a gig o' ram & 100gig hd. I'm starting to believe P5 doesn't like my graphics card. Cas, what kind of graphics card do you have? I have a Matrox 450 32meg dual-monitor.