To all, I reinstalled the Poser 5 software and then ran the service patch (on a Windows 2000 machine) and everything seems to be working now. I did allow the software to install to the default directory. I was worried about my registration and all that but my serial number was already in place and I had no registration issues at all. I even went so far as to move my Poser 5 folder back to my root directory and every thing still seems to be working fine. There was a second release to the SR1 file yesterday (I think) and I downloaded the newer file. I was high speed and had no real download issues though the dl seemed a bit slow. I assume that was traffic on the CL site. All seems well. For now :::evil laugh::: Rance