What's the best & fastest way to scan/digitize 1,000 or more old photo's?

Q: I am preparing to archive hundreds and hundreds of old family photo's and documents. I have a scanner, but on that scanner it would take years of full time work to scan all these pic's. Do you know of a service company that could do this for me? Can you give me an idea of the cost of such a service, if there is one? Can you recommend a really, really fast scanner for photo's, and preferrably also for negatives (I know negatives scan slower). Also, if I do this myself, is there a software package that would be better (faster) than Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro? Any recommendations for getting this things onto a computer disk, as well as for how to archive and index such a big collection, would be greatly appreciated!

A: sheeer guesswork here, but I had heard that Kinko's does amazing things with data-handling and copying

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