I couldn't find tools that did exactly what I wanted to do, so like others before me I made some.  I was actually embarrassed at how easy it was to create these tools as I have waited for years for something to do what I wanted and no one out there would oblige (or at least I didn't ever find anything).  What are these magical tools?

The first is a image resizer.  Basically it will take an entire directory (a subdirectories if you choose) of images and resize them to a certain max width or height.  Essentially if you have a wide image it'll resize that image's width to the max size, same with tall images, except it will resize the height.  Comes in really handy when I want to upload files to the web.  Instead of 3MB files, I can easily resize a directory in seconds to 30K.  Not bad eh?

Source if you want the code: BatchImageResizer_Source.zip

Installer if you just want to install it: ResizeFolderPictures.msi

The second tool is a file renamer.  This will look at a directory, and rename all files in the directory similar to a "find and replace" function in Word.  This will also recursively look at all the sub folders and do the same.  If you wanted to change ".MP3" to ".mp3" you just type it in, and wack the button.  Shazam, no more .MP3, just the .mp3 remains.  Same goes with any pattern you can think up.  I added in regular expressions in case you're into that masochistic stuff.

Source: BatchFileRenamer_Source.zip

Installer: RenameFilesTool.msi

Enjoy.  You can use these in conjuntion with the shell commands that are outlined in the blog post prior to this one.  This will give you a total visually way to add the paths in (if you're lazy like me) to the Path boxes in both programs.