still befuddling.

the drivers are fine. thankfully.

but, here's the latest bizarre weirdness. when i line the reconstructed files up in a new project, they render clean. repeatedly. until i save and reopen the file. then i get the screwy behaviour again.

i think that's actually a hard drive issue. i'm running a chkdsk on the drive. i'll format it if that doesn't work.

whatever hit me really walloped me....