Okay, something new with all the problems I've been having lately.  All of a sudden, when I open a new, empty file or an existing one, the 3D view is completely black.  All the objects are listed on the side and when I render, everything shows up in the render.  But that doesnt help much if I cant see what Im doing anywhere else. I'm running XP, have an Nvidia GeForce 8500 GT card, 4GB Ram, Intel Core Duo, I've updated all the drivers for the graphics card, emptied the Temp folder, etc... but it stills just has a black screen.

To make things even more interesting (and probably connected), Poser is acting up too.  When I try and load up an existing pz3 file, the screen goes white and then comes back piece by piece.  When it finally loads, all the animation info is lost.  All I have is whatever is in frame 1.

Even weirder, my computer insists on claiming that Carrara is the only program I have to open pz3 files.  When I go into Explorer and try to tell it to use Poser instead, it ignores my request and won't even show Poser in the list of program files.  (I have to browse for it, but even then, it still doesnt show up on the list.)

Any suggestions?