Yes, I think that's part of the problem. I've been able, on occasion, to get C5 to load a scene properly after doing a reboot. It's not the whole answer, though. Textures can choke it badly. And it seems to give me more trouble when I've got a ton of parent-child stuff in a scene. Which happens a lot with these combined beasts I've come up with lately. I'm still thinking that if you broke the scene into pre-posed components, used the native importer, then brought them into the C5 scene bit by bit, you might have better luck. I'll try it when I have time. Unfortunately, I have very little of that right now. My day job is working me six days a week, ten hours on weekdays. And I'm still trying to maintain the two 'toon per week posting on www.fotoonz.com . Eeeesh.