susieq, I tried the site, didn't work. Thought I'd download Internet explorer,and try picasa from that. (using google chrome usually). that didn't take either. something must be stopping the downloads. ??

I understand, and that's fine. I always recommend manufacturer's websites and dedicated forums as first tier research during the self-help process. Their FAQs and thread search history quite often resolve a user's concern. If needed a second tier research on Google often surprises users as to what they can learn and remediate on their own. Third tier is anything goes. Not in this case, but too often users skip one and two, and go directly to three. DA

"...how the heck could 3 mb be too large? Do you have any ideas?" I see two galleries, I've used neither. Trying them just now, they don't seem to get along with Firefox? I'm assuming this is the upload form you're using? http://photos.gardenweb.com/garden/galleries/upload.html If so, it does say "Make sure the image doesn't exceed 500 KB". That being the case, your images are around six time too large. I'm betting that if, as suggested by DA, you use Irfanview to downsize them first, they'll upload fine. BTW, the uploader that's available here in these forums(not the gallery) allows a full "5000 k". It resizes the images to make them more bandwidth friendly. Although it's been a very long time since I've been on dial-up, I remember it being excruciatingly slow. Loading a page containing even a single 3 MiB image would have probably given me time to go brew a pot of coffee, come back and drink a cup. Am I remembering it being worse than it really was? At about 3 KiB/s download speed(I lived way out in the sticks) it would have taken how long? Maybe 1024 secs? 17 minutes? Maybe my math is not precise but the point is that although 3 MiB is small for those with high-speed Internet, for those on dial-up it's really huge.

Will try to help you the way I do it. Go into Picasa and at the top left, there is a button that says export. This will give you a drop down box and select "folder" there. I then go into documents as that is where "My Pictures" are located. Click on the ones you want to transport to Picasa and you will see them show in the little box below. Hit the button that say Import and they will go go Picasa. There may be a much easier way(probably is), but find I can go it this way. Good Luck!