Bryce 5 crashes when texture files not located (importing 3ds)

[muttgold]

I am having a continual problem importing 3ds props into Bryce 5.01. Bryce will display a message indicating that it can not find a texture file, and says that the user can locate the file in the next dialogue box (this should be familiar to everyone). However, the dialogue box doesn't appear and the program crashes.

The same 3ds prop imports cleanly without prompting for texture files in Bryce 4. I'm going to use 4 for the time being. Has anyone else had this problem? Am I missing a patch?

I'm running the latest update of OSX (10.2.6)

Thanks.