RE: Repairing the covering
Not to get off the subject, dragline322, but you mentioned that you took pictures but cant get them small enough to post here.
Here is how to remedy that:
1)Click on the picture on your hard-drive you want to post to highlight it.
2)Click on the right mouse button to open the menu.
3) Scroll down to "OPEN WITH" to highlight it.
4)When highlighted another menu will open. Scroll down to "PAINT", and when highlighted click on the left mouse button to open up the paint program of your computer.
5)When paint is open showing a larger version of your picture click on "IMAGE" on the toolbar to open a menu.
6)Scroll down to "STRETCH/SKEW" to highlight it. When highlighted click on the left mouse button.
7)A 'stretch and skew' window will open.
8)Under "stretch" in the 'horizontal' and 'vertical' boxes type in the percentage you want to shrink the picture to. Usually around 50-60% is enough but both boxes HAVE TO be the same percentage or the picture will end up elongated and odd. The size of the pixels of the pic depends on the percentage you type in the box. A pic around 700KB would be shrunk to about the 50-60%, but a pic around 1.2MB would need to be shrunk to about 40-50%. So if your pic is about 1.1MB you would type a '40' in both the 'horizontal' and 'vertical' boxes.
9)Click "OK" on the right side.
10)You will see the picture shrink down. After the pic has shrunk click on the "X" to close the program. A message box will open asking you if you want to save the changes. Click yes.
Now the picture file size should be small enough to post in RCU. If it is not then repeat the steps and shrink the pic say another 75% in both boxes as stated above.
Let me know how this works. This should be the setup basically on all Windows programs from Windows 95, 98 - 2000 up to Windows XP.
If you need to know how to post pictures on RCU let me know.