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Pkej, it looks like you still need a Windows Terminal Services server, which of course costs a fortune. After reading their site, I don't quite understand what this product provides over regular Terminal Services, other than it looks like it only exports the app and not the whole desktop. For about two years now I have been using Microsoft's Terminal Services client to connect to a Windows 2000 server from OS X, and the performance is great, usually as good as being there. However, pushing a lot of graphics across it will probably degrade performance.
If remotely hosting Picasa is a viable solution for you, have you considered installing Linux Picasa on a Linux box somewhere and just exporting the X display to your OS X machine? Remote X isn't as fast as Windows Terminal Services, but on a fast network it's usually pretty usable. I haven't tried this myself, but as long as it's not using OpenGL or anything weird, it should be exportable to a remote X server, like on your desktop or whatever. Or maybe this is what you meant by Picasa over the network, my assumption was that you meant files over a network share.
Agreed on ACDSee. I refuse to upgrade past version 2.4x, it's the best basic picture viewer I've ever used, and later versions are slow and bloated.
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