Multiple image handling

My frustration is when i see lines of code such as:
$node->images[IMAGE_ORIGINAL] = $file->filepath;
It means that his module doesn't support multiple images to be uploaded and associated with a node. Because of this code:

/**
 * Implementation of hook_delete.
 */
function image_delete($node) {
  ...
  db_query('DELETE FROM {files} WHERE nid = %d', $node->nid);
}

This should be expanded along with the files table to include a 'title' column so that it can handle multiple files from the one node. This isn't something that would be difficult at all but would make custom module development much more flexible.