First Shave and a Haircut hair test

Ok this is my first hair test using JoeAlter Shave and a Haircut. This is NOT the final design, I'm actually going for the blonde pigtails, but for now I'm happy that I got the damn thing to render AT ALL, it's super-crashy, the hair renders one time and the next time it doesn't, nightmare! I think I might have discovered a very delicate balance of settings that doesn't make Maya ignore the hair geometry, freeze of crash with a fatal error. Next step - see if I can style the damn thing.