A .mac account might be nice to have, but it would have been good to know up front that iPhoto will not let you upload to anything but .mac. I paid the $24 bucks for another year of the Flickr pro, which had expired since the last time I had uploaded anything, downloaded the Flickr uploader onto this new computer, and then spent an hour and a half trying to figure out why I couldn't get the pics from iPhoto into the uploader.   I thought I was doing something wrong that I couldn't get the pictures to transfer from iPhoto to the Flickr uploader, and was wondering why I couldn't locate anything in the tutorials to help me out. Finally went on-line to research and that is when I read, on a non-apple site, that I was going to have to spend another $24 bucks for the plug-in (not an Apple product). Now I'm wondering if other of the MAC programs also limit their functionality outside of an Apple business unless I buy another piece of software or subscribe to .mac.

Had I known upfront it was going to cost me $48 bucks to upload 18 pictures, maybe I would have subscribed to .mac to begin with. But I didn't, and iPhoto sure didn't let me know. This kind of thing is simply something that, as a PC user, I was unaware of. I haven't checkout .mac yet - don't know what it does or what it costs. I just know I have been happy with Flickr.

Janie