Thanks Ernie,
That's certainly a solution. The main problem comes when you have multiple Drupal instances off one code base... or you just want to change some paths.
One idea would be to use symbolic links on my file system... I found another guy complaining about the same problem on the Drupal site and complaining that he had no better solution than symbolic links - which at least indicates that symbolic links is a solution.
Just link /files/sitename (or whatever you like) to /sites/sitename/files/
John
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You could write a module that would hook the node and manipulate a marker [img:picfile]. The hook would apply the file_directory_path and what else was needed to replace [img:picfile].
Earnie -- http://for-my-kids.com/ -- http://give-me-an-offer.com/