Thanks for the info on BlazeFTP. It looked promising, so I downloaded it and tried it out. Unfortunately, it won't login to my remote FTP. Oh well!
If you like SlimBrowser, you might be interested in trying out MyIE2
http://www.myie2.com if you haven't already. I was a long-time user of NetCaptor and tried other IE shells before settling on MyIE2. It's actually very handy when I'm testing and comparing small changes to my JAlbum albums.
Speaking of, how does everyone else test their templates? For example, I usually have an HTML editor open (HTML-kit) and/or UltraEdit to make changes, hit "Rebuild All" in JAlbum, then Peek or Preview to see what it looks like. Is this what most people typically do or is there a way to integrate the JAlbum scripting into an editor? I know nothing about JavaScripting (other than what I cut/paste from this site

!) or compiling (huh?) so if there's a better way than what I'm doing, please share the info!!