Cheers Matty and Steve.
I didn't go the dual processor route as it was proving too expensive.
I opted for P4 3.6 with 1gig DDR2 5400
2 300GIG 16mg cache HDDs
XFX 6600 256 Graphics.
MSI NEO 54G M/B (after 2 DEAD ASUS P5GD2's and a wrong board that was supplied)
Its far faster than the old 1G athlon
I might manage to get all off my images processed now.