Image size

Hi:

Trying to upload images (large) to the Media section/folder via the web interface. I am getting the following error:

Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 71303168) (tried to allocate 17572 bytes) in /home/zukester/public_html/store2/wp-admin/includes/image.php on line 162

The images are 13-49mb

This is lines 162 and 161 above it in image.php.

// Set artificially high because GD uses uncompressed images in memory
161 @ini_set(‘memory_limit’, ‘256M’);
162 $image = imagecreatefromstring( file_get_contents( $file ) );

Any ideas?

I need this to work!