I've come in late on this, but there are some steps you could take if you haven't yet gone down the reforamtting/reinstalling/virus-removal path yet.

I had an similar problem to yours a year or so back, though unlike you I couldn't start in safe mode. It turned out that a lost file fragment was causing the problem. You could try the following:

• Boot your computer from your Windows installation CD rather than your hard disk (I'm running XP as well).

• Don't reinstall; instead open the recovery console when given that choice.

• Run "chkdsk.exe c:" (if c: is your boot drive) from the console. I can't remember all the options, but I allowed the program to recover any lost file fragments automatically and report back.

That solved the problem for me. If it is a virus, at least this won't do any harm.

Interesting. In the UK there's a feeling in some quarters that it's been the other way round for a few years - that American comedy is currently sharper, better-produced and better-written than its British counterpart.

To back this up, none of the British programmes mentioned so far are less than ten years old (though I don't know "An Idiot Abroad"), and some recent UK sitcoms have been atrocious. My kids tell me that the newer generation of comedy is excellent, but I haven't seen any examples. I tend to stop at the early 2000s, "Father Ted" and "The Fast Show".

Standup is a different area entirely, of course. We see quite a few American and European comics over here, and they tend to go down well.

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 According to my profile I am still a subscriber.  I'd be grateful if a staff member could look into this for me.

My situation too - any help would be appreciated.

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Yes, it is a pro feature only.

Mark

That's fine, as v7 Pro arrived yesterday at my door bundled with 3D World magazine. Looking forward to trying the rendering technique.

Excellent tutorial in this issue, by the way, Mark.

I have version 7 Basic and can't find a feature to save irradiance maps. Is it Pro version only?

Thanks for the heads-up on this, and for the higher-res downloads of the earlier episodes. It's really progressing well and the motion capture adds an extra dimension - the look of this episode reminded me a bit at the beginning of the "New Captain Scarlet" series, if you've seen that.

And it wouldn't be a Trek episode without a piece of technobabble, as TheOwl has already mentioned...

I don't think this has been posted yet, and it relates to this thread. For M2 and V2, Capsces' Boris and Roxanne morphs are now also free.

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Thanks; I have the G2 bundle, and I'd forgotten the soccer kit was part of it.  As you say, the Poserworld freebie isn't there any more.

Rendas 1 and 2; but I think there's a non-disclosure ruling on posting images with these two figures.

Yes, that was it; thanks. Now I know the name, I'll see if I have the earlier version somewhere.

Found it; the installers write to DZINSTALL.INI, located in Program FilesCommon FilesDAZ.

I haven't seen the film, but judging by 'Nikopol Trilogy', the only work of his I know, weirdness is pretty much guaranteed - very stylish weirdness, but weirdness nonetheless.

I wouldn't have thought he'd been around long enough to have influenced 'Blade Runner', though.

Quote - MY VISION IS NOT IMPAIRED

EXTER-MIN-ATE!

Or, on Saturday night;

EXTER-MIN-IEREN!

Those few seconds cracked me up.

orion1167 used to have a Druuna morph for V3. It's not in the marketplace now, but he might be willing to sell you a copy off-site.

Edit; it's still here, though misspelled -

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/index.php?ViewProduct=35272&

• and seeing it again, I'm not sure how much of a lookalike it's meant to be.

This is great news; thanks for the heads-up. This must be very recent; I got the flight helmet about a week ago, and I'm sure they weren't available then.