I am not understanding this Bonjour photo sharing thing with front row.

I just finished seting up my media center with a 37 inch Olevia. WOW
Anyways, what I am not understanding is I have iphoto set up on the other two compuers as sharing photos and the MINI is set to see them. Do I have to have iPhoto RUNNING on the other two computers so that I can RETRIEVE the photos on the mini? That seems so wrong. Can I just access the other computers photos and view them on my wireless network to the mini? I thought this is what this bonjour is all about...or do I have to copy the photos to the mini for viewing?
Thanks

You are most welcome.
I understand the frustration - but when you step back and think about reliability, it makes sense to have one application to do one thing. If front row had to handle the slide show - it would be bulky and whenever a new feature was developed (or bug fixed) - the code would have to be added and tested in both iPhoto and Front Row. By keeping front row thin, simple and intuitive - it gets to market cheaper and more reliably. Isn't that really why we use Mac?
iPhoto's job is to organize pictures. A lot of sophisticated things happen to add value when you take those "pictures in a flat folder" and import them - color correction, cropping, rotation, grouping into an album, ordering of the photos, settings for the slide show - music, fade effect, ken burns/zoom, etc...
I have those applications set to launch automagically when I log in and hide themselves so I never see them until needed. They sit there idle once they load until front row tickles them in the correct manner to feed data over the network to front row...
If you really need some photos to stand alone, you can always export a slide show as a quick time movie. Front Row will play movies remotely with no application running on the other end.

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