Vista - Photo Gallery - import thumbnail only

I have several CDs and DVDs of family pictures that were either taken with a
digital camera (recent) or scanned from negaitives, slides and prints. Some
go back to the early 1900s. The pictures themselves take up too much hard
drive space to keep on the computer itself which is why I copied them to CDs
and DVDs in the first place.

I would like a gallary of thumbnails only so I can identify the proper CD to
get the original photo when I need it.

Is it possible have a thumbnails only with tags (no original image) in
Windows Photo Gallery? I suppose this would be more of a CD catalog with
thumbnails than a gallery so maybe Photo Gallery isn't even the proper
software.

Can someone point me in the right direction?
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Cordially,
JCH
www.jcharper.net