Creating a drop zone in a picture

Hi everyone. Here is that I'm trying to do. I have a picture of a castle with windows, I would like to add a drop zone in the windows so I can zoom to it then go to another picture or video in another window. I used photoshop to crop out the windows so their transparent but I can't figure out how to put a picture in there and stay there when I zoom to another window. Does this make sense?

Well I did as you said and it seemed to work a lot better, but I'm pretty anal about this stuff as we should be. It's almost there, the last picture didn't lingo up right and sneaks in from the right. What could I be doing wrong? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYTbmnQ_6js

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    Thanks Jerry, I can't believe I missed that.
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