>I am using XMLTOCURSOR() because the original Image I am trying to append is coming in from an XML file exported from another system. Since I was having problems storing this image to a SQL server Image field I was wondering if the
>XMLTOCURSOR() function had special parameters for converting binary image data

Yes it has,
nFlags 1024 and 131072 in VFP9.
If original is XML, MSSQL can read XML (check openxml,for xml in books online).
Cetin