J Rod7:
I tried to follow all of your links. The obvious thing I found missing, was dates. Those photos are not links from live NASA satellites, except the first URL is NASA, and it's a 2002 photo, 7 years ago.
One of your links led to this:
http://www.lmsal.com/YPOP/Projection...TRACE_171.html
which shows a date at the bottom of 05-Nov-01 01:01. I don't know if that is 2001, or 2005, but I suspect 2001.
Old photos.
They certainly are pretty... thousands of photos of the sun like these are available over many years. Don't forget the sun goes through 11 year sun spot cycles, and massive sun spots are very normal.