here's a tip for shrinking your photos: go get microsoft's free 'picture resizer' is available here - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx... along with a bunch of other useful tools. Good tools
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Then you can click on a bunch of .jpg files and specify screen size; it'll shrink a 1.5mb pic down to 90 KB and STILL fill 1024x768 screen