Questions about Numbers.... another newbie

I just purchased numbers.... trying to keep an accounting of a house remodel I'm doing. I managed to create a ledger sheet where I type in my receipts of purchases and then break them down into the appropriate subgroups... flooring, HVAC, paint, landscape and so on... The receipts on a lot of items purchased are these thermal cash register paper that dissolves and becomes unreadable in short order. So, question number one... can I scan these receipts, turn them into a jpg or pdf and then link the specific row for that receipt to the file on my computer so that if/when I want I could pop open that receipt to look at it? This also archives the receipt for me..... in case the thermal one is blank next year at tax time....
Question number two.... I would like a "main" ledger sheet that has all the invoices and receipts logged into it in total, beginning to end of the job. Then I would like to have a separate page/table for each month, hopefully auto filling from the "main" ledger... so as I type in a receipt, it automatically goes to the appropriate page for March, April, May.... that sort of thing.
Not sure if any of this is possible, I did search thru the archives a bit and couldn't find specific references, if this has been hashed out before... please point me to the posts and I'll go from there. Oh... total newbie to Numbers and for that matter any spreadsheet software...

Hi Rob,
Thanks for the help.... well, I used the tilde (~) and tried changing the name to just "lowes.jpg", moved it around up and down the folder tree.... if I leave it in the "sites" folder, I am now getting a different error message:
(403) Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /~brianlamb/Lowes.jpg on this server.
Apache/1.3.41 Server at brian-lambs-imac-g5.local Port 80
So.... now it sounds like it's looking for it, just doesn't have the permission to see it... now, I did go into Apple system preferences, then under "Internet and Network", chose "Sharing" and set personal web sharing and personal file sharing to "on". So unless I'm needing to allow permission in some other way... I'm stumped.
Oh, and yes, I'm using 10.4.11
On edit: Holy Crap Batman! I got it to work... pulled up the lowes.jpg file in the finder and was checking... looks like at the bottom under permissions it was set to "no access" for "group" and "others", so I changed those to read and write and it's working. I can now pull up the copy of the receipt with one click.... too cool! Now all I have to do is spend a couple days scanning them all in, but once I'm caught up, weekly updates will be a snap! Thanks so much for the help.... this forum is great.... amazing!
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