I've already started work on this hack after some nameless admin here suggested to someone i would be able to do it

thanks heh
I've done the modifications to the functions that deal with the upload but i need to make more adjustments because all attachments are uploaded to a dir below root and they have a funky random name to stop people trying to execute them, so randomstring.file is what i've been calling them and then the attachment.php file opens them sends the header and then sends the file.
Hopefully I'll be able to get this finished soon.