Novices, eventhough you have read something into my post, that I don't beleive exists, and have somewhat insulted me as a result, I'll throw my htaccess out at you. My inititial post was an attempt to reinforce what Thrillho had stated about htaccess protecting your images.
Don't forget to change 'yourdomain' to your domain.
<Files 403.shtml>
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Files>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteOptions inherit
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^
http://www.yourdomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^
http://yourdomain.com*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^
http://yourdomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^
http://www.yourdomain.com*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^
http://yourdomain.com:80/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^
http://www.yourdomain.com:80/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^
http://yourdomain.com:80.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^
http://www.yourdomain.com:80.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule (gif|jpg|png|swf|mpg|avi|GIF|JPG|PNG|SWF|MPG|AVI)$
http://www.yourdomain.com/whateveryouwant.html [R,L]