DESTERWALLABOO  Have you tried the nightly builds of WebKit?.... I've been using them as my main browser for well over a year without a hiccup. The current builds are much faster than Firefox 3.0.2  
(Version 3.0.2)

DESTERWALLABOO  I certainly hope so... Maxtor's and Western Digital drives have always failed for us.  
(Version 1.0)

DESTERWALLABOO  You can always playback even if the demo expires... you just will not be able to encode anymore.

This is the best codec I've used for post-production animation/fx bar none.  
(Version 2.4.5.1)

DESTERWALLABOO  Never had a single problem exporting.  
(Version 2.4.5.1)

DESTERWALLABOO  Not sure why you have to have a powerful AGP card or have 3D turned off to use SheerVideo Pro... that doesn't make any sense at all!

Anyway, with that said, we use this codec daily in our regular workflow. We rarely render out in any other codec except for final delivery. Keeping animation files and such in a smaller, pristine lossless format is priceless. When we changed over to Sheer from using Animation codec we literally saved over 2TB of file size by simply converting our existing Animation codec files to Sheer. Also, Sheer supports 10-bit color space... something Animation doesn't support.  
(Version 2.4.5.1)