Thank you so much to both of you!! Valerie, I just installed the version you linked me to, and it worked like a charm! :) Thank GOODNESS for you and your experience with this problem. Saved me! And Madelaine, even though reinstalling the current stable version didn't solve the problem at hand, I learned something invaluable by following your instructions. I will never again routinely click on the viewer updates that show up constantly in my IM's. Didn't realize how much that was gunking up the system. Just by doing the clean reinstall, I couldn't believe the jump in rezz speed and visual quality. Same viewer version....WORLD of difference! Glad I had that problem in the first place because I learned a lot. Initial post: I've read a couple other posts from people who say SL crashes completely for them after taking a photo and saving to disk. My problem is even weirder! As of a few weeks ago, every time I take a picture and save it to my computer, from my perspective I and everyone around me stays stuck in whatever action or pose they were in when I took the picture. So if I snap a shot at a music venue, we all still appear to be moving and dancing, and I can hear the music and chat, but I don't see new avatar activity. If someone logs out, to me they are still dancing next to me for the rest of the hour. If someone moves across the room, I still see them standing in the old spot. I don't see any new people who arrive after the photo. As for me, I'm still shifting around in my standing AO, but I can't move from my spot. However, if I teleport to a new location, I can move again and begin to see things in real time again. Lovely, but a bit inconvenient to teleport in and out of a location every time I want to take a picture. I almost want to say this started with an SL Viewer update from a few weeks back, but couldn't say for sure. An even newer update from yesterday didn't change the problem. I'm on a Mac desktop, so I didn't download that Windows program that seems to have caused problems for some other people. Anyone heard of this?