I'm interested in bypassing the file upload feature (create > uplaod file). This would be a droplet on the mac, using the current version of MT. Primarily, it would be used to upload images, but some pdf, doc, xls files too. While I can easily ftp the file and thumbnails, and hit the db directly, I figure it would be more reliable and efficient to hook into movable type and replicate the 'upload' button function. It would be limited to a single blog, and only used to add assets, not post. So:

1. am i rebuilding the wheel (other than the one built into MT)?

2. It looks like the form elements are in tmpl/cms/include/asset_uplaod.tmpl, or am I misreading things?

3. Anything I will be missing such as session/blog information, and how is that stored?

As for the why question, because I've been told to.

While Better File Uploader looks sweet, the powers-that-be want to avoid the web interface for uploading assets.

TIA
-dave