Yesterday evening my electric went out while I was working with poser open. Now today I noticed every time I hit the area render, my task manager shows poser memory going wild, often up to 300,000 megs! The program seems to still work though which is really strange, but it won't render after the initial area render, the area render button stays red, I can't change to other body parts or cameras or lights, and the preview box stays gray or has a sketch like image.

I tried to fix it by cleaning up some things, as windows acts funny sometimes after this sort of thing happens. I first cleaned up all temp files and cleaned out cache files and deleted items. Then I ran defrag and rebooted. It seemed to work fine then it started acting up again. SO I reinstalled my poser, all the updates, and all my runtimes. That didn't seem to fix it either.

Oh and the pc I use for my poser projects is not connected to any internet, it is specifically for poser only, it's never been connected to the internet and I don't use it for anything else so I don't think it can be a spyware or virus issue.

That PC is pentium 4, 1.5GHz, and 512 RAM. I know I need more memory but it hasn't been a problem. The only thing on it is windows 2003, poser 6, and a CD burner to transfer my stuff to my computer on the internet which is at my mom's house down the street :/

The above snapshot is what it looked like after I did everything I could think of to try and fix it. Has anyone seen anything like this before? Any suggestions?