For a field K, rational function φ ∈ K(z) of degree at least two, and α ∈ P(K), we study the polynomials in K[z] whose roots are given by the solutions in K to φ(z) = α, where φ denotes the nth iterate of φ. When the number of irreducible factors of these polynomials stabilizes as n grows, the pair (φ,α) is called eventually stable over K. We conjecture that (φ, α) is eventually stable over K w...