Media Manager Pictures - locks up

Is there a way to load pictures on the storm without using Media Manager? It hangs/locks up when Roxio is trying to index all my thousands of pics.
I tried copying directly to the pictures folder via explorer, but the pics do not show on the storm media view.

I had the exact same problem the first time I used Media Manager. The next day I opened it it worked fine and has ever since. This was after a reboot. I think it just took a VERY long time to index all the folders. I am running it on Vista.