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Excellent.
After some trial and error, I have v1 of my RecentImages plugin for MT available.
Basically, this just loops through your entries until it finds

num_images

worth of images, and will print the ALT text and the link to the image. Use it like so:

<MTRecentImages num_images="10">
   <a href="<$MTRecentImageUrl$>"><$MTRecentImageName$></a><br/>
</MTRecentImages>

To install it, simply make a file called recent_images.pl in your mt plugins directory and copy the following code into it.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use lib '../lib';
use MT::Entry;
use MT::Template::Context;
use vars qw( $error );

use constant NUM_IMAGES => 10;

BEGIN {
        eval {
                require HTML::TokeParser;
        };
        $error = $@;
}

MT::Template::Context->add_container_tag(RecentImages => \&images);
MT::Template::Context->add_tag(RecentImageUrl => sub { shift->stash('image_url') });
MT::Template::Context->add_tag(RecentImageName => sub { shift->stash('image_name') });

sub images {

        my ($ctx, $args) = @_;

        if ($error) {
                return $ctx->error('Error with : required modules not installed');
        }

        my $num_images = $args->{num_images} || NUM_IMAGES;
        my $blog_id = $ctx->stash('blog_id');

        my $iter = MT::Entry->load_iter(
                        { blog_id => $blog_id }, { sort => 'created_on', direction => 'descend' }
                );

        my @images;

        while (my $entry = $iter->()) {
                push @images, extract_images($entry->text);
#               push @images, { image_url => 'asdf', image_name => 'foobar' };
                last if @images >= $num_images;
        }

        my $res = '';
        my $builder = $ctx->stash('builder');
        my $tokens = $ctx->stash('tokens');

        foreach my $image (splice @images, 0, $num_images) {
                $ctx->stash('image_url',  $image->{image_url} );
                $ctx->stash('image_name', $image->{image_name} );

                # defined (my $out = $builder->build($ctx, $tokens))
            # or return $ctx->error($ctx->errstr);
                my $out = $builder->build($ctx, $tokens);

                $res .= $out;

        }

        return $res;

}

sub extract_images {
  my $content = shift;

  return unless $content;

  my @found_images;

  my $stream = HTML::TokeParser->new( \$content );

  while (my $token = $stream->get_token ) {
    if ( $token->[0] eq 'S' and lc($token->[1]) eq "img" ) {
        my $img_attr = $token->[2]; # the attributes for this image tag.

        push @found_images, { image_name => $img_attr->{'alt'}, image_url => $img_attr->{'src'} };
    }

  }

  return @found_images;
}