?? customizing opera's speed dial icons, thumnails, previews, etc?? help needed.

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Here's the 411 on my stats:
Opera/OS Version information
Macbook
Model Name: MacBook
Model Identifier: MacBook5,2
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2



Opera Version
10.00
Build
6652

Platform
Mac OS X

System
10.5.8

Java
Java Runtime Environment installed

Browser identification

Opera/9.80 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X; U; en) Presto/2.2.15 Version/10.00


Here's the issue:
I know this topic has been discussed, but when I search for it on opera's forums and on here...., there's like 9 pages worth of info regarding one / all of the following terms/subjects...
speed dial, icons, customization, etc or any mixture of these subjects.

I read about this site on one of the forums..
this generator for the icon, thumbnail, preview, etc... it's slow though when launching the sites from the speed dial...
(i think it redirects from one site, shows the "huge" icon, and then is redirected to the site.)

any solutions, ideas, advice, etc?