images without GD

Hi all... For the moment, my host doesn't support GD, but they're working on it. I'd like to assemble heading images from a range of pre-built smaller GIFs (a-z, 0-9, etc). It's easy enough for me to write something like: <IMG SRC="h.gif" /> <IMG SRC="e.gif" /> <IMG SRC="l.gif" /> <IMG SRC="l.gif" /> <IMG SRC="o.gif" /> ... Or even write a function that write the HTML code for me... but I shudder at the amount of server calls, the sluggish speed, needless waiting, etc etc. So, I was hoping to be able to grab h.gif, e.gif, l.gif and o.gif, and join them all together to make a single gif/jpg/png, and call it with: <IMG SRC="heading.php?str=hello" /> But my guess is that I'm completely outta luck until the host brings their new servers online. Is that about the size of it? Justin