I don't even know why I am bothering to write this except to save some others of you from my experience. Once again I had a crash/lockup this time while saving a file. Guess what. The file I had been working on for several weeks is now 1K in size and I get a read error when I load it. So I go to be back up that was created on the 16th and redo four days of work. Or I go dust off Corel Draw 8 (God!)and try to convert what I have to something I can work with in Corel (GOD!!)
Incidently I had removed all the bevels from the drawing. I did continue to use shadows so maybe that was it. I don't know. At any rate I would caution all of you about using XaraX for complex drawings. May be I will check to see if there is a patch in a couple of days when I have cooled down.
Maybe I'll just go get drunk.

John