Plug-in's additional files

Hello all,
I'm sure this is a no-brainer but I'm gonna ask it anyway: Where is the best place to store/retrieve any additional files that my plug-in might need? I assumed I could keep things like that in my plug-in's bundle (I'm on Mac OS X, CS5) but I haven't found an easy way to 'ask Illustrator' for a path to that location.
Is there a rule of thumb regarding this sort of thing?
Thanks!
-W

We use the API to get the plugin directory, then attach to that the name of the bundle (name.aip) and whatever subdirectories you need past that point.
Take a look at SPFiles.h (SDK/illustratorapi/pica_sp/SPFiles.h) and the SPPlatformFileSpecification struct.
I can't post all our code, but here is a snippet...
SPPlatformFileSpecification fileSpec;
sSPPlugins->GetPluginFileSpecification(sPluginRef, &fileSpec);
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sSPPlugins is a SPPluginsSuite struct and sPluginRef is, well, an SPPluginRef that can be constructed from an SPMessageData struct. See any of the AllocatePlugin functions in the SDK examples on how to create an SPPluginRef.

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