Given the number of good ideas here, it's probably not a bad place to mention photo organization software.
Google offers Picasa at www.picasa.com. This is free software and is a good inexpensive way to see what this type of software can do to help you out. My current organizer is imatch available at www.photools.com. It's $60 (US) and is very powerful, but a bit awkward to learn. Adobe has chimed in with an organizer bundled with Photoshop Elements v3 and v4. There is a lot of function resulting from the synergy resulting from the combination with Elements. The list price is about $100 but you can usually find it discounted around $70 or less. There are 30 day free trials available for download for each of the last two. See you later, gs
