nothing to do with progressive jpegs, just bogged down, slow servers. The official Party Line is that it will improve...eventually... but then again, that's been said for years now. :) maybe tomorrow it'll be faster, or the day after. Meanwhile, while waiting, it's a good time to do something quick and simple, like perfect a new world economy, invent a perpetual motion machine, solve the problem of where the socks go...anything like that. :)