I keep my photos and video on an external hard drive which is attached to a Mac mini. I have a larger hard drive that I use with Time Machine for both the local and external disks (Time Machine can be configured to back up both). I keep a copy of my photos on my MacBook Pro, and periodically rsync them to the external drive attached to the Mini. The video is only on the external hard drive because it is too big to keep on a laptop disk, and I attach the drive to my MBP whenever I want to build something in iMovie. The Mini is attached to a TV so I can watch the raw video without having to move the external disk.

My fire/theft backup is Backblaze, which was the only service that would allow you to back up both a local and external disk for the same price when I selected it. It continuously backs up my Mac mini and the external drive with my video and photos.

I'm guessing the reason why some many users stick with IE6 is that it is the most up-to-date browser for their version of Windows. IE7 support starts at XP and Firefox 3 starts at Windows 2000. IE6 supports 98, ME, and even NT 4.0.