Hello Rob, Oh ya - i should have included the important info - Windows Server 2003 PHP 5.1.6-Win32 MySQL-5.0.27-win32 MediaWiki 1.9.0 I used the windows binaries; no compiling 4 me if i can help it! I probably need to enable it through PHP... i'll go try and figure that out. Thanks. I'm an amature programmer with a .NET/ASP/MSQL background, so the PHP/MySQL has a bit of a learning curve for me.. getting used to it, though. Assuming i find the way to enable it in PHP and it's ready to go, i already have the wiki configured, can i just change a setting to enable thumbnails? I'm hoping i can find a place to do that instead of having to re-run the install page... Thanks!

Hello Rob, Thanks for your help. I figured out that GD Library is included in the zip install, but not the executable install of PHP. i downloaded the zip, copied php_gd2.dll into my PHP/Ext directory, edited my PHP.ini to include that dll, and it is now working. I'll have to check out ImageMagick - i'm unfamiliar w/ it, but if it's better, i'll give it a try. Found the localsettings.php file and made that change. I'm now trying to test to see if my upload works, but i'm running into a different problem. Please forgive, maybe this should be a new thread... but to test i try to edit a page. (not even add image, just edit the text) and i get the following error - "Sorry! We could not process your edit due to a loss of session data. Please try again. If it still doesn't work, try logging out and logging back in." It's an intermittent problem, during the writing of this post, i succeeded in editing a page, and uploading an image, but got session-related errors many times. I'm wondering if there's a session.timeout setting in the wiki I need to fix, or if maybe my PHP is having problems with sessions (?). I'd appreciate any advice! thanks. ~jon

Hello Rob, Thanks so much for your attention. That was indeed the case. Once i fixed windows permissions on the session storage folder, things started working.