I am using Picasa2 for my editing of all my photos BEFORE uploading them to Auctiva. It is some extra steps, but I enjoy more quality in the way of photographs. I also have to 'export' the photos to a different file within auctiva so that they are modified to just FLY up to auctiva. I use to be only able to upload small batches, now because the sizes have been significantly reduced, I can UPLOAD 40 or more pictures at one time.
My waiting time is then for Auctiva to respond. That can take minutes but not nearly as long as it would have taken.
I use Windows 2000, Firefox, and Picasa2 (available as a FREE download) with Auctiva.
I am not having problems at this time with uploading images
It seems between updating Windows, Firefox, Auctiva and Java, there are bound to be conflicts... Currently my applications are all playing well together...