actually I am extracting the canopy frame and canopy glass and fuselage are all separate geometry.

I'll post a blow up as soon as I can.

I added some detail and now I cannot render in mental ray. I keep getting several message in the mental ray output window to the affect .. thread xxx: cannot start due to insuffiecient memory.

I have 4 gigs of ram (but I am running 32bit xp pro so I am only seeing 2.75gb)

I have ~4gb of page file space allocated on both the c: and f: drives and both c: and F: have over 400gigs of free space??

I am defragging the drives and if that does not work I am going to exp everything in the scene to a .obj and then re-import.

I used to fix screwy scene node problems by exporting to fbx but they took it out with maya 8.5 (I think). Which really sucks because exporting to fbx and then re-importing was the only way to fix a nurbs problem that still exists in maya but now there is NO WAY to fix it!

GO GO Autodesk!!!!