>About Craig's way with to different BMP. In early version my class I do it, and this work fine on lettle tables (~50 recs). But with recs > 1000 I had trouble: when I scan through list pictures periodically disappears... I hadn't time to solve this problem and realize idea above.

If you've got 1000 items in a list, it is too many. It would be very difficult for a user to select the correct item, not to mention the performance hit.