cool.. no I don't think it would be good for you to be off someware working on a pic of a hairy woman whill its your wife's birthday !! not good.. LOL

hummm about the hair down the midle.. maybe you should cheak your outliner.. there could be a subD shell superinposed with the rest right there... I know I have had a time or to of switching from poly to subD and mirror and attach ware some ware it got a extra copy of one of them in there that I didn't ask for..
just a thought..

oh just trying to help.. you probly know this or know of it.. but try using smoth proxy.. once thoghs polys are smothed there is no good way to reduse there number.. tweeking a poly that has bean smothed perminitly is a nightmare.. much eazyer to do with the low count poly fraim..

or make a copy and thin smoth that so you can see how it looks with the fur.. I think the fur is cool.. I'm thinking about trying it maybe for this comp also.. although I probly will not have time to get to that..