The whole # of images thing, some on the front page and some you have to click throuh at the bottom is kinda something that depends on the vendor's off site storage situation. 

When you see more images on the front page than the one allowed at the top it means that the vendor has formatted the description to call off site images. For people like me, who have plenty of bandwidth on their web hosting package, hot linking to off site images for promos is no big deal. But if a vendor is scrunched for bandwidth they almost have to deal with the promos as set up in the system here. Even using image hosting sites is iffy cause of nudity rules in the TOS, and many still have bandwidth restrictions. 

I'm also going to agree with surreality on the monitor issue. My rendering machine is my laptop, and what looks great on that LCD screen looks absolutely horrible on the old CRT attached to my desktop.