Problems Merging Variable Images in InDesign

I'm currently trying to merge text and images to a clients master InDesign file for printed output on our Docucolor. The text is merging fine (when I click the preview button in the merge data tab) but I keep on getting a message pop up to say that pictures are missing or cannot be found. If I proceed to run a merged file InDesign generates a report listing all the missing pictures (which is basically all of the pictures I'm intending to merge / print).
I think the problem lies in the pathnames I'm setting up for each image in my Excel file (which obviously I'm converting to a CSV file afterwards). The InDesign help file shows "\" as separators for Windows and ":" for OSX. My pics are in a folder on the desktop of my Mac but using ":" as separators does not work. If I select an individiual image and do an apple-i the information that appears uses "/" as separators when describing the file's location, so I tried that as well but it didn't work either! I've also tried replacing spaces with "_" in the file names - didn't work.
What am I doing wrong?

I got fed up with how it handled path names a long time ago, just keep the database in the same folder as the images and you only have to put the file name in the database.

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Edited by: Tim Haley on Nov 25, 2008 11:11 PM
Edited by: Tim Haley on Nov 25, 2008 11:12 PM

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