Installation problems

[Adso]

I had the same problem - you need to make sure that in the max plugins.ini file any sitni satni plugin entries are in the order:

[Directories]
Afterworks Common=D:\3dsMax8\plugins\Afterworks\Common\
Additional MAX plug-ins=D:\3dsMax8\plugins\
...
FumeFX=D:\3dsMax8\Plugins\Afterworks\FumeFX\
AfterBurn=D:\3dsMax8\Plugins\Afterworks\AfterBurn3\
DreamScape=D:\3dsMax8\Plugins\Afterworks\DreamScape2\

... and make sure you don't have any duplicates of Afterworks.dlu around the place, just the single version that comes with FumeFX.

Hope this helps!

Cheers,
Adam