Poser and Vista

okay, i've spent all the time i can handle over at the poser/efrontier forums and am going blind trying to figure this out.

i went ahead and did the preorder for poser 7. since my computer was all but dead (ask anyone trying to game with me - it was pathetic) i opted to wait til i got the new one to install this. the downside being that i didn;t have the money til after vista came out. *sigh*

so i have a shiny new computer with all the bells and whistles i can afford. after some very long phone chats with my eq2 buddy (who happens to be an IT guy in RL) we were able to get the game up and running.

so i loaded poser as my second priority. poser 6 runs beautifully.

poser 7 hates me.

now, i bought the upgrade version since i had a real copy of 6. i made sure that was intstalled and installed 7 next. it installed it in a totally different place (making it look like poser got bought?). 7 froze up trying to start anything new.

so i uninstalled everything, double checked my security settings (which vista is a pain about btw) and reinstalled everything, this time in the same file. same problem.

doesn't matter if i ask for a new "canvas" or if i try to delete the existing figure. either way i freeze up and have to go into the task manager to make it shut down. 6, btw is running. course, all my "toys" are on the old computer since vista won't acknowledge my pocket media drive i bought as backup and to transfer all that stuff. so i have next to nothing to play with anyways.

is anyone else having this problem? or have any ideas what i might possibly be doing wrong?

HP Pavilion 9100us laptop
1GB Ram
NVvidia card (can't remember which one, but if you goto HP.com you can see the specs for my machine, i didn't upgrade anything.)