Well, hit the first wall with Vue 5 (using the gaming box to post this, as the main one is rendering a test animation to check out Mover 5's behavior). I haven't been able to get -any- rendercow to function. It loads textures, starts to render a frame, then throws an access violation. Vue 5 itself seems to render just fine, though. However, I may have at least part of the answer. I use Internet Security 2002. The update access just lapsed, and it has been acting flakey for the past month....ever since Symantec did things to redirect it to other servers, and constantly nag about re-upping the subscription. 2002 in no longer supported, so I wonder if that may be part of the problem. I have MSVC++6 on the main box and all the render boxes, so if that isn't the problem, I have debug files to send to E-on. I'll be yanking IS 2002 out by the short and curlies tomorrow and installing 2005,we'll see if that works. In the meantime, if anyone has a successful run with the Vue 5 cows, let me know. I can't keep my claim as semi-competent network rendermonkey if I can't figure this out.... :P