Marc,
I have my home pc hosting my site. Apache web server is free and one also comes with winxp pro. The gallery software is called Magic Gallery. If you click on the bottom of my galleries it will take you to the software home page. I like it because I can pick numerous backgrounds, add notes to pictures, mildly edit, and it will resize the images for me and create the thumbnails. It's super simple.
Nautilus,
Man, I wish I had a housing! They cost almost a grand. I'd even love to rent one for our Belize trip, but don't know if such thing exists. When we went to Europe recently (pics to come) I took my laptop with me to offload my two 512MB cards to. It uses compact flash. This year since we're going after my birthday, I hope to have a 60g Ipod photo to put them on instead.
Thanks for the input on the acrylic. I've been unsure how to finish the box, but that might be my way out. The only other option I considered was putting the silver egg crate over the bottom of the box to force the light down. I won't know till I try and then I'd still need feet for it or to mount from the ceiling.
My sand is finally aged enough that I can turn on my 2nd Tunze without a storm!