Beyond that you may want to take a look at storing them in binary memo fields instead. A quick custom function call in an ole control can use strtofile() to dump the file to disk where you can set it as the picture property on a form or report.

General fields can be a real pain and you will hit some limitations if you get into things like trying to encode a general field in an XML string, etc...

I avoid general fields like the plague unless there is a VERY good reason to use them.

Mike