Thank you Dan for looking at it, and your reply generated questions. I prefer not to use codas and repeats, so rather than have my songs loop back via coda to play the same melody passage or same chorus passage I just write the measures again. Is THAT an issue?

Now, I never get to the step where it finishes rendering for me to try and load it into my Sonar. It sits for about 90 seconds, and then I get a "not responding" error and the screen whites out. Sometimes I can stop it in task manager, more often I have to restart the laptop.

Did you also try to "drop" it using the drop button? I get the same freeze up problem when I try to go that route.

So, logic... if YOU can render it, logic says it isn't the file. By week's end I will have my new Dell desktop. That means I will install BIAB fresh on a new computer, not install ANY other programs, and that computer will not be on my home network. No chance of the old scapegoat "you must have a virus or spyware" exit strategy.

We'll see.....