Originally Posted By: mlord
This was saved as a 72KByte JPG, so I opened and resaved it as a 2.6KByte PNG file (without resizing.. they just muffed the JPG, I figure).

There are no JPEG artifacts in that image, which would suggest the JPEG "quality" was turned waaay up. JPEG becomes very unoptimal at those levels. JPEG is just a terribly poor choice for high contrast images.
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Bitt Faulk