Very nicely done. Gotta do things s. l. o. w. l. y., I agree!
By the way: Never fear AVI! If you use DivX, you can compress file sizes tremendously well. Or you can do it like I do: Get yourself QuickTime with its MPEG-4-Codec and use programs like Adobe Image Ready to create MPEG-4-Quicktime movies with it. Then zip the whole thing and I would ...