i'm a copy and paste disaster.... small change from above code.... my apologies!

Code:
	function load_imageGD($src_name) {
		// create an image of the given filetype
		$file_ext = substr($src_name, strrpos($src_name, '.'));
                $image_type = exif_imagetype($src_name);
		switch (strtolower($file_ext)) {
			case '.gif':
			    if(!function_exists("imagecreatefromgif")) return false;
                            if ($image_type == 1) {
                               $image = imagecreatefromgif($src_name);
                            } else {
                               return false;
                            }
			    break;
			case '.png':
			    if(!function_exists("imagecreatefrompng")) return false;
                            if ($image_type == 3) {
                               $image = imagecreatefrompng($src_name);
                            } else {
                               return false;
                            }
			    break;
			case '.jpg':
			case '.jpeg':
			    if(!function_exists("imagecreatefromjpeg")) return false;
                            if ($image_type == 2) {
                               $image = imagecreatefromjpeg($src_name);
                            } else {
                               return false;
                            }
			    break;
		}
		return $image;
	}