the purpose of publishing to a folder, is to save time by finding errors befor you try your .mac account. so the idea is publish to a folder, check it out then publish it to .mac.

Iweb is tempermental.
Always publish it to a folder then save then publish to web.
Naming pages with spaces and other charactors, hyphens commas etc causes problems. when in doubt throw out the "domain"file and resave your project then try the publish routine above.
I'm using I web AND homepage AND custom pages written with TACO in various parts of my site.

I started mine with taco html and a html tear sheet from a magazine.
I then added stuff to it using Mac homepage and a program called galerie.
I've now added stuff from Iweb.
Mac's Rule!!!...don't let that go to your head Mac from Montreal....your're pretty cool too...

I find that using multiple cameras, file numbers can be a problem.
I use a program that extracts the exif data (date and time to be precise) and renames all the images with: {name/day/month/year/time} eg: don01042006t1245.jpg before loading them to Iphoto. That way images from different cameras and diferent cards all get sorted into proper order as they're loaded.....as long as yer camera clocks are synced that is.

Talk to your lab, as many are quite proffecient at sharpening images for their printers.
ps.. is my Pentax 85mm soft focus sharp? I'm not sure if I'm getting edge to edge sharpness....nice portraits though...

i use a tamron ltx series backpack that has withstood years of abuse, for my slr kit. I use a lowepro hip pack for slr and a couple lenses.
I also use padded lunch coolers, coleman coolers, a diaper bag, and other bags. depends where I'm going and what I'm carrying.
my advice in choosing a backpack is this:
Comfort! Waist belt, shoulder straps and chest strap, should all work together to keep the weight on your hips and shoulders not your back.
Balance! bags should distribute weight properly.
Ease of access! you should be able to get at your rig easily and find stuff quickly.
Design! it should help you to stay organised, and not allow dirt/sand etc in when you set it down to open it.

BTW any glass should reduce uv i believe lead used in the molding, cooling process acts as a filter, good enough in fact that farmers once switched from glass to plexi windows on chicken coups to improve animal health.

your pentax glass with multi coating should be all the uv protection you need and any uv filter put in front isn't likely to make any noticable improvement. cheap uncoated lenses may be a different matter, I wouldn't know. but i do know that anything you put in front of your lens could adversely affect image quality.

I could be wrong...still on first cup-o-joe.

I'm not big on using filters in general. Have had expensive glass in the arctic, to dessert like conditions to swamps and can honestly attest that with proper care you'll rarely need a uv filter for protection if ever.

don't drop your camera is the short answer.

Or pentax supplied/coated the glass that tamron used for the production run.

I saw some Bushnell brand binoculars with 2.1 mp camera, for a couplehundred bucks, recently...Doesn't pentax have a similar model with camera?

I noticed that same problem with both canon and pentax cameras. I thought it'd be great to keep a sample portfolio on a spare card and carry a video cable for impromto slide shows...no dice..wouldn't work.