I am having terrible difficulty with the Roxio Media Manager. It is not seeing my 8830 device as connected ... although it syncs fine.

Are there any better programs out there to make it easy to transfer pics from my PC to the 8830 ?

Any help is appreciated

Try Media monkey and see if it meets your needs. They have a free and a paid version.

Thanks .. I will try it

If they are mp3 and jpg you can use Windows explorer to drop the files directly to the media card.