# further up in the code:
my $dir = $ENV{HOME} . "/www/pix/gallery";
# this points to the only place we should be loading 
# images from. 
|
| Loop through the directory and populate all the valid
| file names into an array
my $image=sprintf( "%s/%s",$dir,$imageStack[rand($top)]);
# that picks a single name out of the list and prepends
# the full path of the gallery directory to the name.