Best way to present mockups to clients

I have been wondering what the best way is to present FW mockups to clients. With only a single client, one on one with a laptop is fine; however, with several around a conference table, it becomes very awkward. I have considered buying a projector, but these do not really do justice to the graphics and are subject to lighting, etc. Plus they are expensive and require a screen, etc....
What are your methods?

Yes, I usually send a flattened jpeg or something beforehand. However, I recently had an unpleasant experience in which the client essentially wanted to redesign from scratch, and was oblivious to the concept of agreeing on a predetermined design scheme. Eventually I just walked out and cut my losses.
How do you avoid this sort of thing; i.e. when the client attempts to "use" you, the designer, simply to implement some sort of amateurish and hideous rubbish of their own "design"?
Not meeting face to face is perhaps the best way!

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Hi,
This is more of a design issue rather than a technical one, but I can't work out the best way to present this data but I thought someone here would have a good idea.
I want to graph with a line chart the capital growth of investments over time. I need to represent the initial capital (say $200,000). Then each quarter I need to chart the capital growth. ie. Q1 +$10,000 = $210,000, Q2 -$5,000 = $205,000, Q3 +$25,000 = $230,000 etc.
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I want to do this as neatly as possible as the table & chart are going to be shown on an executive summary page.
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Stuart

Stuart, since nobody else seemed to wait to give it a go, I'll pipe in. Not knowing your experience level, I might be giving you stuff you already know. Sorry if that's the case.
I do think it will be simpler if you create an intermediary table and hide it behind your chart. I'm going to assume you're only going to need to look at 4 quarters. I'm also assuming there's only one investment to chart. Our table will need 1 header column and 1 header row. 5 total columns (including header) and 3 total rows (including header).
I labeled the cells 2 - 5 of the header row "Q1" through "Q4"
I labeled A2 (the second row of your header column) $200,000 -- your initial investment base.
B2 through E2 should refer to the cells showing the gain/loss for the specific quarter. According to your example, the data shown should be $10,000, -$5000, $25,000 and whatever Q4 provides -- I put in -$40,000 to illustrate how an investment loss will show. Set them up as references (i.e. "=Sheet 2 :: Table 1 :: B2") so they'll update automatically.
Format rows 2 and 3 as currency with 0 decimal places.
Now put this formula in cell B3:
=SUM($A$2:B$2)
and then propagate that down the rest of the row (click on the little bubble in the lower right of the cell and drag it across the row). The following fields should become $205,000, $230,000, and $190,000 (based on my Q4 figure).
With those same cells highlighted, click on charts and line charts for the basic chart. I do recommend using the inspector to change the Y axis Min and Max from "automatic" to values equidistant from your investment base (in this case, $200,000). I chose $240,000 and $160,000. Sadly, I'm not aware of any way to automate the handling of these values.
Now either place this table behind the graph, behind the original table, or slide it off to another page that you will not print.
If this was too basic, let me know where you want to go from here; if I glossed over something you need more info on, let me know.
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All,
I have the following data:
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Weight | 200lbs | ... | 210lbs
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Any of KT's suggestions would give you a killer presentation. However I don't know how to program any of them without either a major upgrade of my skills or a 3rd party library. So I might consider some lo-tech solutions as well.
Customers who grew up on spreadsheets might be quite happy to scan data in that format, so you might consider making a spreadsheet that could be scrolled horizontally or paged (like the PageControl sample app. If you could fit at least 3 date columns on each page, the user could see a number of the most recent vitals as soon as the first screen comes up.
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