>>>>Dragan,
>>>>
>>>>Can you upload one of them, inside a zip file?
>>>
>>>Here. It's slightly buried inside the zip but still easy to find.
>>
>>I have no problems with these images, I can see them perfectly in both VFP9 and IrfanView.
>
>OK, then it's time to recheck the runtimes etc... Actually not runtimes, the user has his own copy of VFP so he got his own runtimes, must be something else.
>
>Thanks, guys.

...and it wasn't the runtimes, it was my routine to prevent ovewriting the file kicking in when it shouldn't (something like .checkDupName()). So not the image control, it was the mistaken filename - it needlesly created an unique filename and stored that in the table, but didn't create a copy of the file because it (correctly) found that the file is already in the target folder so no copy needed.

Oh, well, another brain fart...