Huh, I just had Poser 5 hang simply by alt-tabbing to a wordpad document where I was typing in each step as I did it. This happened while waiting for Cloth Room to "Calculate Drape". Running on XP Pro, 1.4 GHz Athlon, 512 MB RAM, with DSL modem. No wait, it didn't hang: the progress bar had just failed to update when I switched back to Poser. By the time I had typed the lines above here, Poser was happy again, and had draped the dress fine. I was about to delete this post, but then I thought someone else might benefit from the success in simply leaving Poser for awhile to see if it recovers... -- ToolmakerSteve