Thanks a lot, guys.

Yeah, that's what has confused me too. I have a folder on my system that reads "Carrara 7 Pro Beta."

And then I have another that reads "Carrara 7 Standard." 

Apparently the one that is installed and working (I installed them all at once) is the standard version (I don't have the 3D paint option).

I think Carrara standard was only 80 something megabytes but I pulled a Carrara something or other from Digi Arts download zone that was close to 200 megs big! Was that dude's scene that big?

Maybe if I uninstall what I have now and only install the big file. Hmm.

New Zealand is currently at issue 14 of 3D Artist, the mag shop told me 17 will be here in two or three months (we're behind over here). I could take the short route and order it online but I've gotten a lil' greedy with all of these free programs so I'm going to wait and have the bookshop over here hold a copy and call me when it comes instead of spending the extra dough right now to get a copy online.

I have to say that what is available in Carrara 7 is highly impressive and the whole program has a very polished and quality feel to it like, out of all of my modelers, Carrara 7 is the last one that I would expect to ever crash.