when resizing a picture to be larger how do i go about making it look not all crappy from being blown up?

If you enlarge a picture, it is going to be pixelated, unless you use that cool program that importune (jenova? somebody) posted ages ago..I'll try to find that for you it's pretty cool and depending what you're enlarging it can work sometimes.

thx a ton man, much more helpful of an answer than what i've been getting from others

np heh, try this m8:
http://www.crystalxp.net/galerie/en.id.9572-liquid-resize-retarget-for-windows-liquid-resize-software.htm