It was so silly of me to think I needed to create extra blog categories because my archive pages were getting too full.  All I needed to do was to change the templates to make them display less info.  DUH!!  So what I decided to do is show the most recent fifteen entries in the normal way, and under that there’ll be a linked list of older entries, similar to how it looks on the master archive list.  I.e., when you pull up the My Photos page, everything’s either viewable or reachable, but you’re not downloading fifty jillion thumbnails when you only want to check out what’s new.

Now that I have archive pages under control, I’m going to get rid of the extra categories I made for the photos-of-me, and put everything back where it was.  Movable Type makes it super easy to do that, so I didn’t totally waste my time.  I did learn a little more about templates, and I’m keeping the pulldown menus too.  :-)