Originally Posted by
Datamancer
Thanks for the help, everyone! I've solved the issue and it appears to be that the computer I was using did not have enough RAM and was missing steps, as a few of you suggested.
I had 2 Gigs RAM in this machine (and it used to be a budget gaming PC) so I thought that was major overkill, but apparently it wasn't quite enough for these larger carvings. I hooked up an older PC that actually has a slower processor than the current machine, but it has 4 Gigs of RAM, and the carving came out perfectly. Time to go shopping for some more DDR2!
Thanks again,
-Rich