The Gallery is pushing the shout box down too far for my liking as well, not that I use it alot. I wonder if limiting the gallery to 2 pictures but a random set each time a new page is loaded or a streamed set of pics to one frame? I know this wouldn't work for those on dial up so maybe a way of not having it load in the first place ie, active content or no active content.

Jason
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