Document Repository

Hi
I am constructing a web-enabled document repository for storing office documents, pro-formas etc. and I am exploring various avenues for design... and I have a couple of questions that I hope people in here would be best qualified to give feedback on...
I am currently using Tomcat integrated with Apache, using a mySQL database...
I have the option of storing the documents in a database as BLOBs, or in some kind of remote filestore... obviously getting the BLOBs in and out would be slower (or would it?) but which is the 'best' way?
Do servlets have permission to write to remote network drives, or would the documents need to be stored on the web-server (I feel this would not be a good idea)?
I need some kind of dynamic navigation 'tree', but I don't really want to use an applet with a JTree... (I am not keen on applets as I feel their slowness harms acceptance of systems that integrate them) is there a better way? Or is there a way of making the applet perform better in these circumstances?
I need to be able to create and delete tree branches (i.e. directories) from within the browser, any tips on this?
If anyone has ANY kind of feedback then that would be great...
Many thanks
stu

ok slide is driving me crazy! i managed to get it running within tomcat (jtegrated with apache), and now I am trying to configure a mySQL database store... although whenever it starts, it says it cannot find the mySQL driver, but i have put the jar file in every possible place it could be looking for it... i.e. all the lib directories (in 'common', 'shared', 'slide', 'slide-admin' even in tomcat/server/lib) to no avail just keep getting ClassNotFound...
any ideas?!

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