"Wow. I see why you are pissed. That's some damning evidence that the Poser 5 registration process is doing something scary to our computers." Let me know when yu fidn some (evidence) because nothing posted here is anything liek evidence at all. Content paradise makes no alterations to your IE setup - and there is nothing involved in Poser5 that would prevent you from getting to Renderosity... Except paranoia... The poser had to re-install as part of rebuildign a machien with fairly massive problems... it seems to me much more likely that those are the cause of the issue ;)