Thanks for the info, it worked like a charm.  You saved me from introducing my Hewlett Packard to my Smith and Wesson.  Thanks again my friend. 

Well I thought I was a little more versed in Poser than I apparently am.  I am using morphs, is that the same as a binary morph?  And if so what you are saying is get my figure ready without any morphs, save it that way, and anytime I want to use that figure I need to apply the morphs before each render?  Thanks for the help BTW.

Thnx for the tip, I was just adding ending key frames but I read up on putting breaks in the spline and it works like a charm.

ROFL  NVM, as soon as I posted I tinkered a bit more and figured it out.  I had a starting key frame but no ending key frame for each stop.  See.... a noob question.  :)

Quote "OH damn  I just  noticed  this is  a tail.... it looks like you  are needing only a tail ?????"

No no, its actually a lightning bolt thingamajig that will run down the outside of both legs, so it will conform almost like a pair of pants.  And your tips were right on the money.  I followed them step by step  and it worked perfectly.  Thanks for all the feedback.  :)

BTW  I like your quote.  I find it inconceivable that someone else picked that line out of that movie to remember.  :D 

Quote - Well it appears to be male at any rate. ;-)

ROFL  Glad I didnt have a drink when I read this, my monitor would have been splattered.

It's a real honor to be in there with that group.  Thnx.

Tried to re-inject, still not working.  It's wierd, all the other dials work, it's just the eyes that seem stuck.

Well the pic is way to large, filled with way too many props figures trans/texture maps, to ever attempt to render in one shot.  So I set it up to render multiple passes and composite it all together in post.

However the render in question contains 1 V3 figure with a base texture map, 3 props, 1 conforming clothing figure, and 1 hair figure with trans and text mapping.  1 M3 figure with a base texture map, 1 prop, and 2 conforming clothing figures. 3 plant props with texture mapping, no trans.  and 3 vine figures with texture mapping, no trans.

There are 4 lights, 2 global and 2 spot.  Rendered at 2500x2200, at 2500 dpi, using raytrace with bumps, and smoothing turned on.

But as sayed earlier I dropped M3 and vines and it all rendered fine, rendered the rest in other passes and worked it all out in PS.  If anyone cares to take a shot at identifying the problem anyway though, thats the render info.  Thanks gang for all the suggestions and help.

NVM I got it working.  For some reason it didn't like rendering with both figures.  The second figure was covered in a bunch of vines so maybe that was too much, not really sure.  But removing the second figure seemed to work, I'll just have to multi-render and composite in post.

Yeah I know about this issue but there are no walls in the scene, just 2 characters.

Hey guys, thnx for all the advice.  I went with the idea of splitting the helmet in two pieces.  I still get a little stretch, but nothing like it was.  Thanks again.

The helmet portion was done with a spherical mapping.  I'll take a look at the projection paint app.  Thnx again for the feedback.

Yes I created the model, and mapped in in UV mapper, but I have no idea how to retopo it.  LOL I dont even know what retopo means.  :(

UAC???  Not sure what that is, but the problem is solved.  If I open winzip and run as administrator, I can then extract to Poser.  Now to clean up the mess I have from deleting and reinstalling Poser in Vista.  Thanks for all the suggetions gang.  :)