If you guys now are sure it is a bug and that it should 
be reported, I will be glad to do so if it makes it go 
away any sooner.

But I have never reported a bug before, so therefore
I would appreciate any help to do that.

One concern of mine is that it seems like some of you 
know more about the error than me:

Would it be more natural that the one of you that know
most about the nature of the error, posts the report?

I have noticed that several other users have replied 
with reports of problems with the file I posted. 
Is it necessary to get reports from more users?

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Ken wrote:
> 
> Chris Colefax wrote:
> 
> > As regards fixing the problem in future versions, it might be helpful if
> > others here could test the code on their systems first.  This should help to
> > narrow down the problem before you set about posting an official bug-report
> > (after which I might hand over to Ken, who I'm sure can provide details on
> > how this should be done...!).
> 
>  As far as this being a verifiable bug I will go by Ron Parker's philosophy
> that anything that crashes the program is a bug and should be reported.
> It is clear that a good short example has been provided that can reproducibly
> cause the crash to happen on more than one machine. The next step is to
> hopefully get one of the programmers to step in and offer an explanation
> as to why it is happening. Even if is does not get a comment by one of
> the programmers the offending code and details of the problem should
> be submitted to povray.bugreports on this server. The bug report should
> mention that the bug has be confirmed by a couple of different people
> here in .general. The POV-Team can track down and fix the problem from
> there.
> 
> If any help is needed in posting or wording the bug report let me know
> and I'll do what I can to help.
> 
> --
> Ken Tyler -  1300+ Povray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
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