I see. So you're saying that the way I have the program now it is not recognizing the image files as images but rather as cgi scripts, and to remedy that I have to do it the way that you did which is actually read the images in and place them into an array? Also, if I say that I don't understand how I'm doing something, that means I don't and its not obvious to me, no matter how obvious it is to you or anyone else.