I appreciate you getting back to me as soon as you did and I’m quickly going to take my computer out of the reasons you give for my ‘mir’ problem. Thing is I just did a clean install of Win7 64bit on this computer that had Win XP prior to it. Yes it had the 3 gig max of ram but I worked with it. On that ‘pute I had every Trapcode and Effects Suite plugin installed and they all worked fine- even MIR. And yes I will eventually add as much ram as this motherboard (ASUS p5q-E) can hold. Money is tight so I can’t just run out start buying bigger or faster. I’m not in this for money I do it because I’m fascinated with visual effects. I just thought it might be an issue of file misplacement which I’ve run into in the past. Sorry for the length of this and I really do appreciate your input to my problem. gk