I need help with this folks.  When I load Carrara 5 Pro, the file, edit menus do not work (when clicking on them, they normally expand, now they don't).

I have a Gateway tower (2002), XP, 2.0Gigahertz CPU, 40Gigbytes of Disk space, 512MBytes of RAM, and a 32MByte NVida graphics card

So, here is a list of the stuff I did which didn't cure the problem

• Closed down program and reopened (usually fixes everthing)
• Did a cold boot (leaving the computer off for a couple of minutes
• loaded Vue 5 (has same drop down menus - works fine
• loaded Poser 5 (has same drop down menus - works fine
• uninstalled Carrara 5 Pro via its uninstaller and cleaned up fragments-used cleansweep
     again
• loaded Carrara 5 Pro to external hard drive-worse
• When to Best Buy and ordered a Dell X430-121B Tower for $990 with 6GBytes of RAM (will have it tomorrow.

Oh yes, the Carrara 5 Pro CD is not scratched nor does it have greasy finger prints on it (handle the CD by the edges).

Gang, did I leave anything out--Jan

• defragged computer.
• Installed Carrara 5 Pro via CD
• Installed Carrara 5 Pro to my external hard drive.
• Computer system's check indicates that I have my 512MBytes of RAM-Carrara 5 uses 128MBytes
  -Ran Virus check