>I thought that was essentially what OLE was....
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>BTW, I ultimately want to serve them up on a web site. I know there are a number of ways to do it but was wondering if one way was more efficient than another.

OLE is not used in this scenario at all... if you want to serve them up on a website, storing the files in a directory on your server would make life fairly simple.

In order to show them, you just have a link to the virtual directory and filename from the table.