Thanks for reposting Jim! Seems a few other folks have also gotten new boxes since this was first posted. From the days of the original thread, (http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?Form.ShowMessage=589354) where the ancient, yet revered WhimpyPooter, (P2/133MHz/32Mb RAM/W95) proudly brought up the rear with a glacial-like speed of 32 min & 50 sec, the nice shiny new replacement box here (P4/2.2GHz /1Gb RAM/GeForce4 TI4400/XPp) blew through that puppy in 42 seconds. That's 47 times faster than just last week! Now, what to do with all the spare time? (...yeah, right) Although I still may fall short of my aspirations in talent & skill, I can now take some solace in knowing that I'll be cranking out 47 times the crap in the same amount of time! Thanks again JB for reposting your benchmark test file here.