You should be able to find something here that will help you.
If not, Google "Fixing Pet Eyes"

http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/redeyeremoval/ss/peteye.htm

http://video.about.com/graphicssoft/peteye-mov.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vwa9ph9BvU

http://www.essential-photoshop-elements.com/fix-pet-eyes.html

http://digital-photography-school.com/photoshop-red-eye-fix-for-difficult-cases-in-people-and-pets

Retail. One was my favourite fabric store, the other one an office supply store. The third one, with the staff locked out without notice, I don't recall, but it sure made headlines in the newspapers.
And yes, the same could happen to companies offering on-line space as well.

The GIMP has a good help system. The short while I used it, I regularly referred to a book "Grokking the GIMP" - available for free on-line at: http://gimp-savvy.com/BOOK/
and can be downloaded to your own computer from that same page as well.

UP-2-IT, I was neither referring to the "75 of them" in the file on your desk top nor to a program called Google (or Lycos, or any other search engine).
What I was referring to, was your spelling of "Youtube" as "Utube."
Just go and see the difference for yourself, between your spelling
http://www.utube.com
and
http://www.youtube.com
I'd rather not open the latter when any one of my grandkids is nearby, and be presented with near-naked women....

Actually, UP-2-IT, Utube will not get you there. I know, I can get lazy too and sometimes type one letter where there should be three.
Try: http://www.youtube.com - there you can do the search you need to do for GIMP tuts.

I would strongly suspect it is the outside temperature.
According to the manual for this camera (page 434) the operating temperature is 0-40 degrees C, or 32 - 104 degrees F. Assuming you are in an area where Fahrenheit rules, you're well below the recommended operating temp.
If you're in an area where temperatures from the Celcius scale are used, well, I just wish I was there at 20 degrees right now ;-)

Sorry to correct you, Warrior, but that should be http://www.youtube.com
I don't think that tube mills and pipe mills have much to do with PSE ;-)

SATA cable - that's what it was called, thank you Anna!
Except mine had two plugs: SATA and IDE.

At the risk of asking the obvious, have you checked your camera settings and made sure that the camera still takes the photos at the resolution you want them?

Only if they let you know that they are going out of business. I know of three companies that were here one day, gone the next (literally). One of them had been in business 53 years, another one even the staff didn't know they were closing. Staff came to work one morning, door locked, note on the door: sorry guys, there's no longer any work here for you.

With which I am only saying: Do not RELY on cloud storage only. Regardless of who owns it, the risk of losing it all is just as great as if you only use one drive to put your photos on.

And another negative: Companies can and do go out of business, including the ones that offer space to store your photos on-line, so have at least one other means of backing up, like an external hard drive.

And you base that on the review of one user, who posted 5 months ago? And who didn't say what system he/she used to download, or how he/she has set the security settings on his/her system?

From personal experience I can tell you that Giveawayoftheday.com is a website that can be trusted. The downloads are indeed free and I have not had a problem with the installation of the programs I have downloaded.

PAB20, One thing I didn't see addressed in the responses (I may have glanced over them too quickly), is that it may not be the external hard drive at all that is belly-up but rather the connector from the drive to the case to the computer.
If you don't dare to take the drive apart yourself, you need to take it to a reputable computer repair-person or company.
Some years ago my computer gave up the ghost, and some of the "advice" I got from friends was that the HD was a goner. Turned out that the motherboard was the goner.
I took the hard drives out of the computer, as well as one from an external drive, spent $20. on some gadget that allowed me to hook up the drives as if they were extrernal drives and was able to recover all the data from all three the drives. Sorry, I can't remember what the gadget was called.

For future reference, I would suggest you keep an external hard drive as your "working drive" if you don't want to keep the images on the computer's hard drive.
I have mine on one of the computer's two hard drives, but then also have two external drives with back-ups of all my photos, as well as installation files of programs I have purchased and downloaded. One of these is kept in a small fire- and waterproof safe at home (on the opposite end of the house from the computer), the other one at my son's place. The day before I plan to go to our son's I update the drive kept at home, take it to my son's and bring the other one home, to immediately also update it. So for a little while all three the drives are identical in content.
I believe it would be very unlikely that the computer's hard drive and both external drives would go bad at the same time. But as soon as one of them does go bad, I'll replace it with another one.

I used the Gimp for only a very short time, then switched to Photoshop Elements. Nothing to do with the programs, just personal preferences.
While I was using GIMP, I found the information "Grokking the Gimp" to be quite helpful. http://gimp-savvy.com/BOOK/
Because it is on-line, I found it helpful both to take it page by page, and for looking up certain things I wanted to do.

Frank, to "see" what layers may or may not do, try and think of them this way (for now).

Think of the tabletop in your diningroom as the background layer, equal to the photo that you start with. You don't want to scratch up your table-top or original photo, so the first thing you do is to duplicate it (Ctrl + J, on a Mac I believe that would be Command + J, beyond that my knowledge of macs ceases to exist).
It's dinner time and you put a nice table cloth on the table. There's your second layer. Put on that a plate (3rd layer), napkin to protect the plate (4th layer), soup bowl (5th layer), soup in the bowl (6th layer). Oh, you need cutlery, waterglass, wine glass, finger-bowl (are they still used????), napkin beside the plate, etc. You can place each on their own layer, or if they are beside each other they can share a layer.

Now, you look over the table and decide that the napkins under the soup bowl are too stark white, you'd rather use a Christmas print napkin. On the table, you'd have to remove the bowl and replace the napkin, in PSE you could simply put in a new layer at that point with a new napkin, and click on the "eye" to the left of the old napkin to make it hide (not disappear, just hide).
And oops, the knife is placed with the cutting edge towards the outside. If it is on its own layer, you can simply flip the layer (under File, Image, Rotate).

You will find that in some cases you will have to add a layer yourself, or PSE will do it for you. For example, if you add text to an image, PSE will always put that on its own layer. If you drag and drop another image to the one you're working on, PSE will put that on its own layer. If you copy and paste, you'll have to make the layer first.
If you make a selection (Magic wand, marquee tool, etc), it will go on the layer you select in the layers bin.

Once you understand how layers stack up, and discover the different things you can do in layers, it really becomes fun working with them. But do try and take it in easy steps!!!