Hey Les, Pretty darn good for a "teach a man to fish" kinda guy 
... here's another (even simpler) flavor of the olde kixpopper "splash screen" ... it displays a jpeg for 5 seconds (timer set in the body onload tag) ...
In order to post this HTML snippet, I had to change the onload statement to onloadXXX, if you decide to try it, please rename it back to just onload.
TEST.KIX
code:
break on
run '%comspec% /c kixwin "file://c:\test.htm"'
exit
TEST.HTM
code:
<html>
<head>
<title>Test Page</title>
</head>
<body onloadXXX="setTimeout('timeout()',5000);" scroll=no>
<img src="C:\PASSWORD.JPG">
</body>
</html>
<script>
function timeout()
{
window.close();
}
</script>
-Shawn
