Thanks... my bad, I appoligise... I was able to fix it by re-installing the license server right after I posted... I would have deleted the thread but didn't see an option...

I was wondering though if you could confirm a (bug?) for me.... when I try to animate a groom (stack intact), any sinks that were mirrored (i.e. X) gradually go wonky over the course of the animation (ambelic baked animation) and slide out of their positions... it doesn't appear this happens to the 'origional' sink (on the origional/non-mirrored side... that is the actual drawn sink) I've overcome this by collapsing the stack which I picked up a few pages back in the forum.... but just want to confirm that this is the case or if there is a method to keep this from happening without collapsing the stack. Appreciate your thoughts... thank you.

Okay, thank you.... is that the only modifier that should be baked before ambelic animation?