From: aasmund@polardesign.no [mailto:aasmund@polardesign.no]

Any ideas? I feel like I am *so* close to making this work!

It sounds like you have some sort of escape problem, with special characters being handled as text. Don't you have to treat the image as text when inserting them into mySQL and then escape special characters? I betcha there is a special function for that. Try it. regards Max M