If you REALLY want to do pics on html pages, but don't want to spend the time to do the individual pages, the best solution is a single PHP page. You just pass it an arg that is the filename of the image and it displays it.. It's how I do all of my non-automatically generated pic pages. Much easier that way.
Not that I do a lot of them, but hey, every once in a while. ;>
Here it is, I cut all of the extra crap out and commented it a little bit..
pic.php.txt
You'd call it like this:
a href="pic.php?image=images/blah.jpg"
You'll have to save it as, IE doesn't want to display it as a text file as it's actually HTML
Cheers,
Backov