ok, i'm not sure 100% on the total solution but i believe you can use memo fields in access to save pictures etc. I've only really used them to store large text fields (greater than 255 characters) and i know they have a max length of about 64000 characters. So this might mean that your pictures cannot be bigger than 64k in size - i'm not sure.

also - you can use the "appendchunk" method to append binary data to an ado field - so i think you could use this.

what i'm not sure on is how to read in your binary data from the picture files that you have. I'm still looking for that now...

hope this might help

btw i assumed you know how to use ado to put normal data to a database seeing as though you have many posts. is this true?