Joe...as I'm sure Max will explain, graphics like the frog live on some other server, and has to be 'sent' from that server each time someone clicks on that thread...if you make a link to one that happens to be on a slow server, or one that is only intermittently working, the thread will be slowed for as long as it takes for either the slow machine to feed the graphic to Mudcat, or for your machine to give up and 'time out' on trying to load it...thus it behooves us to be judicious about 'inline' graphics...the clickable links are safer...(but not nearly as cute somethimes!) If we are ever able to 'store' certain images, .wavs, midis, etc. on Mudcats server, then they are available at whatever speed Mudcat is operating (like that test thread where we posted tunes)...not sure what Max plans for the future on that score...(gee, it is easy to get used to neat stuff and take it for granted...)