Am I the only one who finds this software a buggy piece of crap?? I really, really looked forward to using and learning this software. I was excited, I've even bought CARRARA Bible 1.0. So far I can't do anything for 5 minutes without the damn thing crashing. Put a plane into the assemble room (ok) add a shader (ok) try and add some wave modifier from the properties panel and CRASH!!! I can watch the hourglass stare me in the face for hours on end!!! The program is frozen at this point. I've given up counting the number of rendering errors I've had (using metacreations own software or D3D or OpenGL) Man am I pissed!!!! I have the patch from metacreations (1.0.1) and the latest drivers for my video card CREATIVE LABS 3D ANNIHALATOR PRO. Does anyone have an answer to get me going with this program, I feel it could and should be a marvelous piece of software.