Windows 7 on Spanky - Fire and Ice

In an attempt to get the images for Spanky's huge project stitched together, a program from Microsoft was tried, known as the Image Composit Editor or I.C.E..
After poking around and learning how things work, it was turned loose on the 41 plates. You should have seen the chaos that ensued as Spanky gave over 1.5 teraflops to solve the problem.

The CPU never worked hard. The GPU kept idling. However, the plates jumped around on the stitcher like a gaggle of frightened cats on a hot tin roof. So I backed out and reset the editor. I then drug just a couple images in and tried again. This time, I got an error saying the frames could not be stitched. I was able to repeat the error.

I will be keeping the software on the system, but it will be used for its intended purpose, that being a panorama from photo maker.