Using FTP to link to folder?

I have been trying to implement a system here at my office that allows a person to search for a picture and then insert it into a document.... Long story short...but most of the people are somewhat computer bass-ackwards and so its been quite a struggle to please them all. But I've not got an idea that may or may not work, but I don't know how to do it.... Basically right now I have a search page that returns thumbnails of images that when clicked, popup the full version of the picture but yada, yada, yada, everyone isn't happy with this way... What they want to be able to do is basically just insert a pic into a document without having to resave the image files.... So the only thing I can think of is that rather than link to the full size picture, link to the folder containing the picture so that they can drag it into their document or something.... I've never done this and the only way I can see to do it is by using ftp:// or whatever to open the folder, but I'm clueless how to do it..... ????

I know Internet Explorer allows drag-and-drop functionality with FTP, but making your pages browser dependent is Bad and Wrong, and a little Evil on the side. Don't do that. Teach your users, with a LART if necessary, to save and open documents. (I feel dumber just saying that. I can't imagine how you must feel. I'm going to go brush my teeth now. Fifty times.)

But, for future reference, you don't need PHP to do this. Just good ol' HTML:

Just so that you know....right now, you are recieving a standing ovation...

Sadly, I was trying earlier to talk one of them through dragging and dropping an image from IE to Word...and they couldn't even figure out how to get to minimized windows open so that they could see em both at the same time! No, really, I couldn't make this up, I was like, 'OK, now next to the X on the top right corner of the screen, is there 1 big box or 2 little boxes?'.....................