How do I publish 5,000+ photos on the web, especially for Windows users?

I currently have over 5,000 pictures in my iPhoto Library. The overwhelming bulk of these are scans from old prints, slides and negatives, with some of the photos over 100 years old - almost all family stuff. I have inherited much of my library from deceased family members and want to make sure that the remaining members can have access to these photos. With only one other Macintosh in our large extended family, I am concerned about getting this information fully distributed to them all. I have been googling [is that a word?] for answers to some of my questions, and I know I can publish the photos using iWeb, but am unclear on some aspects of it.
• Is there a maximum number of photos that can be in one iWeb file? [I know that the limit is 99 photos when published with my .mac account, but don't know if it's different for iWeb]
• Since photocasts are made through the .mac account, does this mean the limit for a photocast is 99 photos? [as above]
• Will photos in the iWeb file include both the iPhoto title and comments? [I need this since many of my pictures show groups and the only way to identify them all fully is in the comments section]
I will appreciate any help I can get.

Forget using iWeb to "share" your images. By design any image is resized (800X600) when the page is published making them nearly useless for printing.
Photocasting does use your full size originals (good news) but requires .Mac account to generate. You would quickly run out of bandwidth trying to share 5,000 files. File names would be used (not iPhoto titles you've applied) and the comments would not transfer either as they aren't part of the EXIF data in those files.
Best practical method of sharing that many images at original dimensions would be a data DVD.
You could also use iPhoto to create a Slide Show (nicer way for older folks to view on TV) and send those shows to iDVD for burning. There's an option in iDVD to include the original images on the burned DVD (as individual image files).
In iDVD you can create a "master file" so you could burn as many copies of them as needed.
Sharing 5,000 of anything via the Internet is an exercise in frustration.

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