Displaying images in continuous forms

I have been researching for several hours on the best way to display
images in continous forms in Access 2003. For example, I want to
display employee name, email, phone, and picture for each record in
the recordset. I can have the pictures converted to any usable
format, use OLE or linking, whatever needs to be done.

So far, the 3 possible solutions I have found are:

1) OLE objects - if you don't have bitmaps associated just perfect, a
tiny thumbnail with the filename appears instead of the full image.
This may be something to do with the OLE type being stored as
"Package" rather than "Bitmap image". I couldn't figure out how to
store as "Bitmap Image", even if I did: Me.Picture1.Class =
"Paint.Picture".

2) ActiveX image control - so far, I have found a few ActiveX image
controls, however, ActiveX controls can't be used with continuous
forms.

3) ActiveX grid/list control - I couldn't find a simple datagrid or
datalist component that would simply display the picture and a few
columns. This seems like the most logical way.

Putting a command button with "click to view image" isn't really an
option because we need to be able to see multiple pictures at a time.

I know that Access 2007 is supposed to make this easier, however, it
isn't an option since no runtimes will be released until at least
June.

Has anyone successfully found a workaround to this problem?

Thanks

.

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