A Couple Of Very Quick Points

1.  I think my WinXP install, now in continuous use for ~20 months, is dead.  I'm not sure of this; there are a few more tricks I can use to try to bring it back to life. But the prognosis is, shall we say, Not Good.

2.  In response I've learned how to do the resizing from the Linux command line.  Tonight I'm planning on copying all the pictures from my laptop to my work computer and resizing them remotely.

3.  Because anything that can be done from the command line can be automated with a shell script, I expect to have all of the pictures resized within about fifteen minutes of getting home tonight.