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David has answered most of your questions so let me get the one I can answer. Your Photoshop problem happens because when you ask Photoshop to save a Targa file, it will first create a temporary "raw" file, create a second file containing just the Targa header and finally a third file which is what you asked for to begin with. The problem is that _only_ Targa files are allowed in the PAR drive. Those temporary files are denied access (thus the message you see). The only way to fix this is having Photoshop create those temporary files in your "temp" directory (what it should be doing if it can't handle writing directly to a Targa file). I have never seen any PAR related Windows lock up though. That's probably something else you got going in your system.