The cannon was positioned on a hilltop near a nube spot (that's me). It was labeled something like really fun cannon. I don't remember the spot name. When I shot my Avatar out of it I lost control of the AV and had to bail on SL. Since then I have not been able to get SL to finish loading. Just gets so far and stalls. Any help? And can someone find that cannon and shoot it? Thanks. I deleted the SL dirs mentioned by Rolig. Uninstalled SL, reinstalled, and rebooted. Still no joy. When I try to load I get as far as a box in the center of the screen that says "Initializing VFS". That just stays there and gets messed up if another window goes over it. ???