HI All. I'm A newbie at this. How do I get the textures on the content CD into the browser on Carrara? It's probably simple but it has me really frustrated. Thanks.

In the browser there should be a brown icon for adding a new folder. Then drill down to the folder w/ the textures. However, keeping a large amount of things in the tray will burn up more resources. If you turn off some of the ui functions under preferences this is supposed to help too w/ some memory. They don't add anything really to the program so...Have fun.

No need to think outside the box....
    Just make it invisible.

if you mean texture images I would not assign them specifically to the shaders or something else. You never know in advance if you'll need them as backdrops, backgrounds or gels on a spot light some day. I recommend just copying the whole set from CD to "My DocumentsMy Stuff" or whatever. If you meant pre-fab shaders they can be added to the browser. See the docs. The same goes for model collections.