I just did some checking...

On my auctions that are NOT using gallery, clicking on the image takes you to the first image in the auction.

On auctions that ARE using the gallery, it takes you to the bottom "ebay placed" image.

I did some checking of other auctions, and they all seem to work the same way. The only gallery auctions that linked to the image within the auction were those actually using Ebay's photo manager.

So the answer is....this is an Ebay thing, not an AW2K thing. They create that upper picture, and they generate the link internally.

My guess is that on auctions without the gallery, they just go to the top of the auction (they don't know where the image is embedded in the auction). On gallery auctions, they know where that lower image is cause they put it there (whether you want it or not), so that's where they take you. Same with ebay pictures - they know where the images are.

Rich