uploading images

I know this shouldn't be this difficult, but all I'm trying to do is set up so as to be able to upload a .jpg image in the add/edit and see it in view.

No matter what I do it just does not want to play.

my dbconnection string is:

<%

strConnection = "DRIVER={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};DBQ= c:\inetpub\access_db\LOT_PROGRESS.mdb;UID=;PWD="

%>

I use: ../../access_db (and variations of /'s and ...'s)as to where to upload the images. I can update all the text fields, but I cannot update the image field.
I tried changing the database field to OLEObject and now I get "Multiple-step OLE DB operation generated errors. Check each OLE DB status value, if available. No work was done."

ANybody?