lol, well not 'til later.
It worked I think until I uploaded an image this am to test ih- oops forgot and left it like that- I think that it worked becuase I had emptied the _MED directory setting in the back end to see what would happen, so it worked because it was having an error and displaying the LRG image instead...I think. Actually it worked just the way I wanted except for the file sizes and duplicated folders I encountered. I didn't intend to upload with it like that.
I am trying to duplicate a site for a friend that creates a product with a on-the-fly pasted on image from a choice of a few hundred photos. It then sends this picture to the owner who creates and ships it. I can't do such a thing. It's way beyond even playing with. I can not figure out how to get the photo that is to be selected as the main photo, but have the email send the "merged" image. I am just playing with it, though - not live and won't be if I can't figure out how to go about that. I think I have to maybe make an extra database table, but was trying to get around it. It just seems like such a simple thing and sometimes I start off in the wrong direction and can't get straightened out. Thanks.