Thanks for the feedback. I'm on a cable too, I guess I didn't realize how slow it loads because it was already cached for me. For the images, I use this script(phpthumb.sourceforge.net) combined with mod rewrite to generate and cache all thumbnail sizes on the fly. The default compression was 75 before which made each pic 7-15k so I just now bumped it down to 4-5k for each thumbnail. That should cut the load time down. I also copy and paste the image sets in bulk so I don't think I'll be adding height/width tags. Maybe I'll find an alternative fix for the jumping.
Thanks again, I'll work on the load time for the thumb pages.
edit:
Just shecked load time on an optimization website. I didn't test it before the thumb size change tho.
Connection Rate Download Time
14.4K -- 89.48 seconds
28.8K -- 44.84 seconds
33.6K -- 38.46 seconds
56K -- 23.16 seconds
ISDN 128K -- 7.23 seconds
T1 1.44Mbps -- 0.81 seconds