Kathy,

Great decision to move to AW2000!! Welcome to the discussion board and as Garry said, the Extended Auction Wizard family.

Images are not duplicated over and over again when using AW2000. Instead a "reference" is created to the image. So all your Auction lots point to the same image for every Auction lot you create and list with AW2K. Even if you have several of the same item listed. I have about 20 Auctions on Overstock for Pottery Barn candles. But I don't have 20 of the same image on my webspace. There is only 1 image for the 20 Auctions. You might want to read about how images are handled in the Help file under "Managing Images" I hope that helps a bit.

I was fairly certain concerning the procedure for manually specifying Gallery image url's. But I double checked with Thom before I opened my mouth and posted. So the response below is straight from the Thom, I didn't want you thinking I was that brilliant. I am not brilliant. Helpful would be a better description.

"You can specify Gallery images by URL. If you use pure HTML Descriptions, that is the only way you can use Gallery images. The option is enabled on the Program Options window ("File | Program Options..." on the menu bar).
The setting for the Inventory Items window is on the "Inventory Items" tab. The setting for the Auction Lots window is on the "Auction Lots" tab. The setting is enabled/disabled using the checkbox labeled "Manually specify Gallery image URLs". Once the option is activated for a window, the "Gallery Image URL" field appears at the bottom of the Image area on the "Description and Images" tab."

I hope this helps you a bit. If not, let me know and I'll try again.

Judy/blue