Google now supports images in sitemaps

As of 9th April, google will index images from sitemaps. I personally don't care about google image search, but this knowledge should help the fellows who care to rank higher.

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=178636

There is a unofficial version of the popular xml sitemap plugin for wordpress with image support
http://www.leewillis.co.uk/adding-post-thumbnails-to-sitemap/

lol thanks for sharing this! I will need to read it all more thoroughly once again but I think it will be really useful.