Well I just updated my Samantha the Red Story Hour and as usual I included pics. Basically I fiddled with the program that Henry recommended to me (irfanview) and saved pics in .tif, .gif, .bmp and .jpg formats. All but the JPEG were enormous (4.5 MG at least). So I tried the JPEGs and got the "white screen of doom" again.
I wound up saving each pic to a .rar file which is more of a pain in the butt but at least folks can look at the pics if they want to (so long as they can open a .rar file). I'm still not understanding what I'm not doing right.