Resource ID# 5 and Resource id #5 8561 errors....help

Hey there, okay I ran into these and need some tips, pointers etc... First I was getting the Resource ID#5 error with this query: $query="SELECT * FROM importimages WHERE Category='Obits'"; $result = mysql_query($query); so then I read how mysql_query returns a resource, so I tried this: $query = "SELECT * FROM importimages WHERE Category='Obits' "; $result = mysql_query ($query); $arr = mysql_fetch_row($result); $result2 = $arr[0]; echo ($result2); when I echo the result2 I get: 8561 --no idea what the heck that is.... the next line is this and its giving me probs: while ($row = mysql_fetch_object ($result)) <------that is what it was orginally but it is not pulling anything out of the db, which led me to echo the query results (see I am learning finally) so I could see if it really wasn't doing anything and well its not...and if I try to make an array and then fetch it as an object it tells me invalid, I think I'm confused about how to make an object out of an array (if that is what I want to do) this is pulling images from a db. Thanks guys! Terion