Boy oh boy, you are having a rough time of things. Glad to see you are perserving, give it time, you are probally doing something on accident that you aren't realizing you are doing, go through all the steps in your head and remember the steps you took, and try not to repeat mistakes. I remember when I first started using Carrara I kept making silly mistakes like this. Also, once again I'd like to recommend that if resources permit that you seriously consider upgrading to CS4, it fixes a lot of the user errors you could make, as well as some quirks in the timeline. Brian