Greg M. Johnson's furious key-hammering produced this:
> So two wacky things going on:
> 1) WinXP's overagressive sleep mode.

As far as I know, Windows XP does little but tell the computer's BIOS when to
go into sleep mode.  Also, if going into sleep mode were based on processor
activity, the computer would never go into sleep mode.

> 2) WinXP's extreme neurosis about the state of its connectivity to the
> internet

Make sure the auto-update features are off and MSN Messenger is shut down.

> (I've seen renders hang due to a warning message from XP)

Shouldn't happen in Windows.  Even if a window popped up in front of POV-Ray it
should keep tracing in the background.

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