I was hoping 3rd time would be the charm, but no dice... I uninstalled Poser 5, and used Regedit to remove all references to Poser from my registry. Disabled McAfee anti-virus and crossed my fingers as I reinstalled Poser 5. There were no errors during the install, but when I try to run I get the blue screen of death and after hitting a key to clear, messages like: "Explorer caused an invalid page fault in module GDI32.dll (or BrowseUI.dll)" yadda yadda yadda. Could it be my video card? (ATI Rage Fury 32MB - latest drivers, GLSetup also installed) If so, it would be the first time for that... Thanks again for the advice, Bonzai Gopher