Well, if the images load, then they where uploaded properly (as if they wheren't uploaded properly you'd have some nice red X's); so ImageMagick would be a good try to see if it's just GD not playing nice.

As for flavors, I don't do windows hosting, so i haven't the faintest; if it was Linux I'd send you at CentOS5 lol.

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