"If nothing else reinstall it on the C drive bare bones and test it."

Ugh. Thanks, but no thanks. I install very little on C:, hedging against the inevitable day I'll have to wipe the partition and reinstall Windows to get rid of accumulated registry gunk. I write software for a living; I think it's highly unlikely that the problem has anything to do with the location of the installation directory or library trees.

I will reinstall the Vicky 2 figure to make sure it's OK, though. The more I think about it, the more I agree with Lady Cherry that the figure file may have been corrupted somehow. I also need to ensure that I was in fact using an unmodified version of the figure, and not a tweaked one I added to the library some time back. If that's the case, I may have unwittingly shot myself in the foot--though I should wonder why the figure loads in P4 without any trouble, but not P5.

I will report back with my findings, hopefully later tonight. Thanks for your suggestions, all.

-- M