Because when you get images off the net using internet explorer it saves them as bitmaps. As far as I know you don't have a choice.

I know this because I am handicaped with a windows machine at work.

Maybe you can convert them to jpg automagicaly. I use a program in Linux called ImageMagic or something like that. It has a command line untility called convert. You could call that any time a bmp is uploaded or something.

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