<font color="0000ff">sledder4lif:
"… so how do you get the pic into the add message box"</font>
You don't put the pic in the message box, you just put one or more of the formatting tags, in the message box (as noted in my previous message) — they each serve as a cue to the forum software that you want to include an image, and where each such image is to be placed within the body of the message.
Later, during the final Post Message process, each such formatting tag will cause you to be presented with a Browse tool that you will use to find and upload the actual image from your PC.
The formatting tag looks like this:
\image{text} <font face="symbol">¬</font> (put all that in the message box)
Note that if you are including more than one image in your message, using a unique "text" value in each formatting tag will cause that unique text value to be used in the associated Browse prompt, so you can tell which image each Browse prompt is expecting you to find.
There are two phases of message processing here:
1. Entering, previewing and possibly editing and previewing your message several times until you have it right — this includes verifying the position that each image will eventually occupy within the message by means of image "place holders" that will appear in the preview window.
2. The actual posting of the message, which includes finding and uploading each image, when prompted by a Browse prompt that is triggered by each \image{text} formatting tag found in your message.