input type=file problem (Maybe 0T)

Hey, Heres what I am doing, I have a form where a user can enter values and in the form I have a FILE box so the user can upload her pic, if she screws up anywhere (eg: putting an alphabet in her date of birth) I send her back to the form and her date of birth gets highlighted plus the value she entered comes in the date of birth and also an error explanation underneith....so far so good. The problem is, if she has tried to upload a pic at the same time and screwed up on the date of birth I am unable to send back the value of the FILE box so that too get populated... I tried setting a VALUE="path/file" but that does not work. What am I missing here? Thanks, Ryan