Description as textarea

Unless I'm missing something, it's rather hard in Drupal to allow people to upload several images on a page with each image having associated text. Currently the only way to do this is I think to create a several nodes each with an image and text field, and then associate these nodes (with taxonomy or whatever), and then dynamically display the results (perhaps with a view).

Could you change the 'description' in filefield from textfield to textarea? Or otherwise provide the possibility of a textarea for each image? This then makes imagefield and filefield incredibly powerful, because people can upload images each with a textarea, and then sort them within an individual node. Perfect, if you know you are only going to be dealing with a few images on a node, say between 2 and 10. For instance, for use as 'staff overview' page, or a 'testimonial page', etc, etc.