amy,

I ditched PSP8 LOOOOOOOOOOONG ago because I had so much trouble with it.
I have PSP7, 9, and X and find I am ALWAYS using PSP7 because it loads faster. Then sometimes I have to bring up my graphic in PSP9 to use the "soften" tool.
Wish I would learn to do all my work in 9 or X cause they are there!

Hi Urlee, which of those do you like best? I don't know about stepping down in number, but maybe I'll look into getting ver. 9...??? or whichever one you think has the least problems...

amy,
There are good points to both. (9&X)
In X, I liked the fact that you could see each image in the layer palette without having to run your mouse over.
I haven't used them (9&X) long enough to see but a lot of folks swear by 9 and I sure was lucky to get a PSP9 as I bet it was one of the last ones sold.
Started to use X when I first bought it. Then I ran into a snag which my dear friend JOY gave me a solution to where when e-mailing our "dear" Coral, they gave me the run around and couldn't tell me what Joy did which was such a simple thing. I let them know too.
But like I say, what I do do in PSP, PSP7 does it just fine as I only have been resizing, touchups, multiple printing, and copy/paste to MSWord from there what I want to insert.
I can't remember which one stopped having Animation shop but as long as you have it now, or a disk with it, you are OK as Animation Shop is a program of it's own that works with 7, 8, 9, & X.

I still go back to 7 too. I didn't even put 8 or 10 on my new computer. haha
Judy