Importing pictures to emails

First off: Marry X-mas to all FM users!

But the joy of the season last just as long as work is out...

Anyhow, heres my troubles:

Im sending emails using name as a variable, such as; "Hi " & $first_name & ", text text text..."

What i want is to incorperate a picture on top of the email. As of right now i have a textfield generating the text with the name vaiable, and a containerfield with the pic. Im then trying to combine them when sending the email by letting the messagefield read;

mailprogram::mail_output & mailprogram::mail_text

but to no luck...

any ideas?

thanks