  The current status and remaining questions of MgII absorbers are reviewed
with an eye toward new results incorporating high quality Hubble Space
Telescope images of the absorbing galaxies. In the end, we find that our
current picture of extended gaseous regions around galaxies at earlier epochs
is in need of some revision; MgII absorbing "halos" appear to be patchier and
their geometry less regular than previously inferred. We also find that the
so-called "weak" MgII absorbers are associated with normal galaxies over a wide
range of impact parameters, suggesting that this class of absorber does not
strictly select low surface brightness, dwarf galaxies, or IGM material. We
emphasize the need for a complete survey of the galaxies in quasar fields, and
the importance of obtaining rotation curves of confirmed absorbing galaxies.
