Jacque, thanks for the heads up on Wes's thread. I had downloaded the mod off of his site, and his 3.12 docs (as of this morning) still do not mention the specific install order of graphics -> then text. Luckily this was sddressed in the thread you linked to. After a quick defrag, and clean installs of MTW and VI, I now have a working copy of MM 3.12 on my pc