Hi again
Alnsue - yep that 'photo cache' can be a real pain (plenty of posts complaining about problems w/ it!).
Does your
Sony Cybershot use their proprietary memory stick and/or an SD card to store the images? My preference when I want to download my images off my digital cameras (own a Canon & a Panasonic), both using SD cards is to simply remove the memory card and insert into the SD slot of my VISTA laptop; then use Windows Explorer to bring up the images on the card to transfer into my 'Pictures' on the hard drive; of course, a USB connection to your camera and computer can be used - not sure if you have a Windows or a MAC computer?
But my point is that you should be able to simply transfer the images to whatever type of computer you own, manipulate then (e.g. cropping & downsizing as desired for uploading to a website or sending by email) w/ the software available on that computer, and then do what you want while still maintaining the larger images for further adjustments. If you have a Windows computer, a 'free' imaging program that I've used for years is called
Irfanview (click on the name to go to their website) - this makes for easy cropping and resizing. But regardless of the computer you own, you should already have some software to do these simple imaging changes.
Let us know if this is of any help; if not, please post more questions. Good luck -