yeah, i should of posted that i got it to work
i deleted the photogallery folder and image folder of all the pics, then i redid the whole page over again. same problem...
so then i tried adding a few pictures at a time, it worked fine up until i added the last 20 pictures or so. same problem...
i figured it handled the majority of the pictures fine so i deleted a few of the pictures and just added less. works, but still have no idea what the problem was.
thanks