Thanks for your responses to my question. Vue session one was kinda frustrating cause I got the Pz3 file to import but the textures did not follow. Then I tried TheWingedOnes's above mentioned trick and during session 2 got the textures as well! Did have one Vue crash though, fortunately I had just saved. And Mac OS X was unaffected. So I was back into Vue in no time. The render was a straight import, textures and transparencys just dropped right in. Amazing!