fopen errors

I have a PHP front end with a MySQL back end with a longblob field. I am thinking the problem exists in the PHP part. Here is the code I am using: $fileHandle = fopen($fileUpload, "r"); $fileContent = fread($fileHandle, $fileUpload_size); $fileContent = addslashes($fileContent); Then it goes into the Db connection part. When I run the script I get the following error: Warning: fopen("C:\\00000-temp\\100_0078.jpg", "r") -No such file or directory in /var/www/testbed/httpdocs/blob/grabfile.php on line 41 Warning Supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in /var/www/testbed/httpdocs/blob/grabfile.php on line 45 Then only thing that really jumps out at me in the file source path of C:\\00000-temp\\100_0078.jpg there is a couple of extra Backslashes (\) in the path statement. I am using a sample script that pulled from one of the websites. Thanks in Advance, Jess