wow, lots of responces.
firestely dragonrc, I have experience similar fame rate issues from program to program quite a bit, for me it runs differentely opened in IE than it does in windows picture viewer or image ready, :\ I think it's becase the canvas is relatively large and stuff, it is most annoying at any rate.
from what I can tell the edits people have done look better, the jumping and stuff seems more realistic, I will try and come to understand this better.
Turbo, you mentioned palette stuff, like complimenteryness in between the highlight and the shading, I'm quite interested in that kind of thing, although I didn't do anything very intereting with this sprite, I've been working on an engine to alter the pallet of a sprite to react to the enviromental lighting of the background, addressing the colours that represent areas in the light seperately to those that represent areas not in the light. hopefully I'll be able to do some pretty interesting things with that ultimately. also I have speculars being addressed sperately, potentually, as they can directely refect the colour of the lightsorce to some extent.
thanks a lot for all the responces overal : )