> What would cause the preview in browser not function....no matter if I set it
> to firefox or interntet explorer I can't get my images to show

is the page opening in the browser, but the images are X missing?

simple fix- dreamweaver preferences->Preview in Browser->checkmark "preview
using temp files"

what the cause is: you made the image paths with site root relative paths.
They start with a leading /slash. Site root relative only means something
when the site is on a web server. Document relative paths are the most
portable.

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Alan
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