yeah I kind of figured that was the reason, but this is 2013, even in 2003 pictures were bigger on this forum and there was more activity then too! I know I can click on the pic but then every one opens in a new window which is annoying when there's 10, 20, 30+ pics in a thread to view. It's trivial but it does discourage me from wanting to even go to the effort to post pics when they're shrunk down so far automatically.