Too Many Files in iWeb Site - Why must iWeb create so many duplicates?

I have created a website for all of my family photos. My current hosting plan gives me 100GB space and a limitation of 20,000 files.
The problem that I have at the moment is how iWeb creates the site and all of the required files for display. I am using the Dark Room theme in iWeb 2008. Basically, it takes the picture that you want to display, adds it to the top page, then creates a directory for that picture, and into this directory it creates and stores a micro.jpg file, a mip.jpg file, and a thumb.jpg file. So to display a single picture, you have a minimum of 4 supporting files and directories.
Also, iWeb seems to store all of the
I have a lot of pictures, around 3,000, so I am approaching the file quota set by my web hosting service. To resolve this my questions are:
1) Does every theme in iWeb create all of these additonal files for displaying the pictures?
2) Maybe I just have some preference in iWeb set incorrectly. Is there something that would improve this? I could put all of the photo albums onto a single page to reduce all of the common graphics that are being stored, but that seems a bit ridiculous to have to do.
3) Maybe I should change my web hosting company. I have checked both my hosting company and other hosting companies to see what the file quotas are. None of them seem to list this. I am reluctant to change my hosting company only to find that the new hosting company has the same sort of limitation in place. Has anyone had issues with file quotas?

To cut your file sizes, use the Black or the White template.
Photo album pages don't work too well. They look good but you have to keep the number of albums and the number of photos per album fairly small if you want the page to download in a reasonable time.
Obviously your individual image file sizes have to be reasonable.
I turn off "Optimize images on import" in iWeb preferences and use ImageWell to reduce the size because it has a visual indicator. Try it out to see what I mean...
http://xtralean.com/IWOverview.html
Have you considered using flash to display your photos?
Have a look at ....
http://www.airtightinteractive.com/viewers/
... and...
http://jalbum.net/
Using JALbum you get some free storage as well.

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