Thanks for the update Scorpius, picture sending is working perfectly I also have the problem with opera opening them as well as image viewer, but like you say opera must have set itself as a jpeg viewer for some reason.

One problem though, I decided to test the delete all messages confirmation box, just to see what it looked like. I didn't click Yes, I clicked out of the dialog and it seemed to work fine - the messages were still there, but after I closed that chat and opened it again the messages were gone