Attached Link: Fried Hair

You have "Do Collisions" Checked. This feature always produces this kind of result. I spent 2 or 3 days trying ever combination of dials. That's what it does. If you want flowy hair you have to turn Colloisions and dynamics off and just pose every strand, one at a time. http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?Form.ShowMessage=871696