On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:26:23 GMT, JTJersey wrote:
>
> Sorry to barge in, but I tried Thunderbird just now and had a worse
> problem with the images. I looked around in the menu for some kind of a
> default block on pictures, but didn't see anything obvious. All the
> images I tried appear as hieroglyphics only.

Should not have happened if you set it up for a news group and jpg image.
I checked one picture to see if it displayed correctly and it appeared
to, assuming it was the same storke picture.