@ om6acw: The thumbnails are animated because the image itself is animated.
thats ok, but its easer put some mark close to the thumbnail with something like "behind this thumbnail is animation" or created one category just for animated things.
but maybe I am wrong....
I do have a category for just animations. I could always use the GD Bibliothek one, it does make the thumbnail a static image, but I really don't want that. If I have to then ok, guess I wont get around that.
Weird though. Wondering if someone can upload it to their gallery and see if it does the same. I couldnt tell if anything were wrong with the file itself when I looked at the frames.
Thanks for your help guys...Weird one for sure.