FLASH: OT: "Uglified" graphics... help!

[ComposiMo]

Ok, i have an interesting problem that i have never seen before. I am working 

on my new webpage, and i have a few jpg graphics for the buttons and logo... 

yes, this is an html site (but it does have a flash banner :-)    Anyway, if 

i start out with a freshly cleared browser cache in I.E.5, the buttons and 

everything look fine... but then i go to view the site with AOHell, and all 

of the graphics look like they have been seriously beaten up with the 

perverbial "ugly stick"... it looks like i saved them with full jpg 

compression.... i.e. no quality. Then the wierd thing happens... if i exit my 

page in aol, then reload it in I.E.5 the graphics go from really nice to 

"uglified" there also! would anyone care to offer a suggestion as to what i 

am doing wrong? Did i save them wrong? they look fine when you first look at 

them, but when you open them in aol they go to crap in a handbasket... ive 

never seen anything like it before.

the url for the page i am referring to is

http://www.digitalrodder.com/index2.htm

The rest of the links work also, but they just simply go to "mirrors" of the 

home page.... by the way if you click on another button, use your browsers 

back button to return to the home page, and do not click on the "Home" 

button... it will go to my site that is running at the moment... not this 

one. but i created the mirrors to see if there was something going wrong with 

just the homepage... the rest of the sites resemble whatever the home page 

looks like.... so if the graphics suck on the H.P., the graphics will suck 

everywhere else also... If it helps any, this site was created in 

Dreamweaver..... could it be dreamweavers fault that this is happening? is 

there a button that i forgot to press before i saved them all?   

heeeeeelp..... please  :-)


Sorry for the long, and OT post, but there are some awesome graphics folks on 

this list, so i figured they would be the right ones to talk to about this..


Regards,


       John Ward

www.DigitalRodder.com


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