What I did was to resample all my photos that I saw VSD getting stuck on.
I resampled the images using Corel Photopaint to a smaller physical size 3-4" vertical x whatever horizontal at a setting of 120 dpi.
I saved all these resampled pics as .gifs in a new folder I called Webpics.
I also renamed each file, ie. if the original was called Fred_10.jpg, the new one was called Fred_10A.gif, this made swapping the old pics for the new a lot easier.
After making all the substitutions I punched upload and held my breath, and lo and behold I had a successful upload!
I hope this helps others to work through the VSD stalling problem, a slow PITA solution but it works.
Four pages done, thirty to go.