Finally.......

The deco brooch was listed on the 14th & ended on the 21st (HD crashed on the 17th). Its pics no longer show up on eBay or AW Preview because I deleted them from Pair.com when I saw there were problems. Some time in the last few days, I ran an Import and an Update, and the deco brooch's description is now just HTML. The original Lot number was 4937 (written on a sticker on the little bag I was storing the brooch in); now, however, that Lot number is assigned to one of the new listings which have mixed-up images. Lot 4937 is now a ring (I located the deco brooch by running a Title search).

For the three online Lots with mixed-up images, the LotImg numbers are what they should be (according to the AW Previews). Re-FTPing the images didn't help (like you said, Pair just skips them -- I could see the upload took too little time). The jury-rig method I came up with was to simply delete the images from the Lots (delete the ones which apparently had numbers duplicating those the brooch once had), rename those images (not sure this step was necessary, but oh well...) and re-add them to the Lots, and then when I re-FTP'd them to Pair, I could see they were actually being loaded and the datestamp file was generated. Not sure why reuploading the pics doesn't change the image files at eBay, but I found I still needed to revise the auctions and manually type in the correct, new LotImg numbers.

Now to the issue of keeping this from happening with any new Lots I list:

For years, my online directory has been named aw2k and it's within the public_html folder created by Pair and not alterable. Today I created a new directory (aw2knew) within the public folder, but I don't see how to tell AW to send pics there. In fact, I don't see how AW has known to send my pics to the old aw2k directory all this time. The FTP settings are

Pair.com
bellat.pair.com
21
tic
password
public_html
http://bellat.pair.com/tic/

How has AW known to send images to the aw2k directory? I don't see any reference to it in these settings. I have numerous other directories (folders within that public_html folder) that house various non-AW images, like family albums and so on, and obviously AW doesn't get mixed up and send pics to the wrong folder. What am I missing here?

Thanks for your (continuing ) help, Judy, and for getting advice from Thom.

Sue