I am one of the "lucky" ones - that carefully read all the threads, upgraded all of the system drivers and made sure that there were no rogue DLL's wandering around my system.
When It came to install I switched everything off except for the few services needed to load the beast. I had automatic (and painless) registration. I drefragged and then did a physical disc check to write all bad sectors off the Hard discs - there are always a couple.

So with the amount of pre preparation (maybe two days of and on) and the amount of worrying and second guessing what could go wrong (weeks) Yes I guess you can say I was "lucky" - or extremely careful.

It paid off. I have a working, very stable Poser 5.

In my thirty odd years of working with computers (yes DaveSo I have worked with Crays- you really wouldn't like them) I have got very wary about new software. Corporate buyers would not buy Windows 2000 when it first appeared until the first service pack was released. 3Dmax had horrible problems with their hardware dongle when it was first released. The first Windows NT server I ever saw shut down the network when its screen saver switched (reason- uncompiled code for the screensaver)

IMHO CL was paniced into releasing Poser 5 - it needed the money and the user expectation was so high. I really needed a longer period of beta testing.

I am not one on the CL dancers(I look lousy in a tutu)

Just somebody who is careful and very patient.

Dr Paul Cooper