Photo Editing software

[Outsider]

I'm looking for a simple photo editing piece of software.
Something my wife can use to do some basic editing (cropping, red eye reduction, contrast, balance... that sort of things) on the pictures that she takes.
I've looked at the photo editor that comes with Office, and I've looked at Picasa2, but both those programs want to index my photo collection.
I don't want that. I just want them to allow me to edit photos. I have my pictures neatly indexed by folders.

I've also tried IrfanView, but the interface is not vely elegant.

Any other suggestions?

[goofball]

What is wrong with the way Picasa2 scans your system for pictures and puts them in the program for easier access? it doesn't reorganize them for you on the hard drive.
Otherwise, look at Photoshop Elements.