1) go to <A HREF=http://www.jasc.com/products/psp/>http://www.jasc.com/products/psp/</A> and download the evaluation version of Paint Shop Pro 7 with Animation Shop 3.
2) Install Paint Shop Pro 7 with Animation Shop 3.
3) Run Animation Shop 3.
4) Open your animation.
5) Open the "file" menu and choose "optimization wizard."
6) Read the options, and choose "animated GIF"
7) Here's the meat of it - you can reduce your color depth to shrink the file's size, you can tell it to remove non-visible elements, you can tell it to reduce frame count or collapse colors to remove redundant elements - just read through the menus and try different things.
8) Save your new animated GIF and upload it.
Much of the time, you should be able to sufficiently shrink an animated GIF sufficiently. However, with some highly-complex animations, it may not wirk.
