ques. re pcmcia adapter for CompactFlash

[Malcolm Hamilton]

Hi everyone -
Question:  I just got a pcmcia card adapter for my CompactFlash 
photo-downloads.  It should be faster than my USB card reader, right? 
It seems to be just as slow (it took nine minutes to download 48 
photos into iPhoto) - - could this be because I have to 'defrag' my 
hard drive?  (by the way, I have a 400 MHz Ti, running 10.2.6, 30GB 
hd).
Next question:  I will only occasionally need to use this pc card 
adapter, so I figure I'll carry it in a pocket in my briefcase... but 
I was wondering:  could I just leave it in the pcmcia slot in the 
side of my Titanium?  Nice out-of-the-way place for it, and it'll 
never get lost!
Thanks for any advice!
By the way, I responded off-list to some of you who advised me about 
automating some tasks I always have to do whenever I open my 
word-processing program (mostly having to do with 
window-positioning).  People seemed to think that QuickKeys would 
work, but I got a note back from QuicKeys recently saying that that 
program will only automate the pasteboard settings tasks... it won't 
drag the windows where I want them to go.
Cheers,
Malcolm