Thanks for the updates.. I hadn't had a chance to play with it again yet. Good catch on infinate vs spot lights Ajax... I was indeed using infinate lights in that render. Nance, in your images above, does that sphere have a hole in it, or not? ;) The shadow seems to suggest that it does.

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