Oh, one other thing about the render nodes... not sure if this is just an OSX thing, but as I said earlier, I have three nodes other than my computer. They are all G5 Dual Processor systems, but it seems that only a single processor is used on the nodes, where you can see the dual processors on the host (my) computer rendering their own segments. Maybe there's a reason for this, but I was expecting to see 8 segments rendering across my image not just 5. dpb http://www.dbuchter.com