Thanks so much Ryk for addressing my queries.

The biggiest misconception I had was about the imge.jpg being the ordinary full sized file instead of the thumbnail / small product listing image. That really hasn't been made clear anywhere. So thanks for clearing that up.

1. What about the "click for the larger image" link command? Is ther anyway to remove that or even better still point it to the large (image_lg.jpg).

4. And you know how you click to close the image, is there anyway to specify say right click to close left click to image_xl.jpg (full size)?

or are we to use the multiple image option for the different sizes? If so when it shows the link to the other imges does it not load the full image even when it shows as the thumbnail which would make it slow? I feel like I'm missing something really big here.