I hear ya on the animated thumbs. Personally, I have turned off my Browsers animations. In IE you can stop that. It will only load the first frame. Much less distracting and speeds up your page load time. If you wonder how to do it in IE, go to tools, Internet Options.. Advanced, scroll down and under Multimedia you will see a box for "Play Animations" uncheck it! POOF! they are gone.. lol -Bruce