Well, thanks everyone for your help! I successfully made my picture, and submitted it...if anyone's interested, it's hiding away at: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=139422&Start=1&Sectionid=2&WhatsNew=Yes

Tekchip - well, I found my way there in XP, but I'm worried. What exactly does this do? And what do I set the minimum to the maximum or the maximum to the minimum?

Tekchip - sounds neato, but could surely there would be a risk involved in such a task (Computers tend to have a give-and-take relationship with the user), right? And could you fill us totally-technically-defunct folks in on how you go about doing this here swippy-swappy?

Wow, twenty-five million polygons! My picture (currently) has a measly 750,000! Well, an update: I yanked 128 RAM out of my other computer and stuffed it into this, and I am just shocked at the difference it made. My hard drive no longer screams, in fact, it barely makes a sound until I start rendering it! Thanks everybody!

Hey, thanks a lot guys. ~sigh~ guess it's time I harvest my other computer. I can yank 128 RAM out of it...but, I can't remember a time where I didn't tweak my computer hardware-wise and not messing things up. Wish me luck!

I downloaded the robe, but it didn't work...I assume I need Michael, then. Where can I get that?