I think the first one is the best logo for your site it suits with the site more then others....

I think you should try some other browsers.... Other browsers work fine without it. So there's hardly one can do about it.

There are many compress tools available on internet ... Install them and reduce the size of video..

These are two different things buddy ....

If you want to see your logo in coral draw make sure you have exported it in high resolution from photo shop.

I agree ....Flash is the best choice if you want to make a photo album it have a feature of animation that will be the best thing...

I think If you are using PHP, you can use image magic (or equivalent) to dynamically scale down the images.

You can find many swf compress tools on net buddy install them ....

Its not that important if a template having music ..

I think you have to buy adobe .... there is no other alternative....

Show me all the codes may be then i can help you buddy....