wow, i did a search and there seems to be tons of rescopy errors reported with someone commenting they're 'mostly cosmetic'. this is a fresh installation of max/msp 4.5.7 on XP Pro SP2a and FTM library. certain patches like the gabor examples and even standard examples cause this error to be reported in the max window. i didn't ever get this message before/when i ran 4.5.6.