Ha! Got a good one... I stumped the experts ;). I am going to close this out. I think that since I have the code to strop the attachments, I might just use an SSIS packages to foreach the files and load them. It is probably the easiest way to go. Cheers.
For the record, I had got the file open and was able to write a file but never was able to get the processing I wanted done. I think that I could have figured it out but sometimes it is better to take a different route than be stuck on a single approach.