This is one of those high in the sky ideas but here i go.

My idea is to kill the emblems dialog in the edit menu and instead create
an emblems vfolder dir. Users could install emblems by dragging and
dropping or cut and pasting images into the vfolder. Any emblems icons
installed in the vfolder would than be available from any folder/file's
property window as in the current design. In addition a user could drag and
drop emblems from the emblems folder to an icon using a right click drag,
there would be a menu option "set as emblem" (similar to "set as
background"). If a user context drag and droped any other image file on
icon and used "set as emblem," the image file would be added to the emblems
vfolder automagically.

for backgrounds replace emblem with background in the previous paragraph.

Thoughts??? I smoke alot of crack so i love comments :)