good suggestion!
in the meantime i might change
http://photos.jlspurling.com/index.php?z=sitemap into a tag so that i can include it in an x= - although... i use htacces i could hide this - but i'd rather it kept the same format. how does my mod to the file look? - i changed the urls - i was jsut wondering if google can see past urls with mod-rewrite.