Oops! You meant "posting" there right?
>> Mind pasting your image loading code?
I totally misunderstood

Basically it's a huge applet. Although I got a small sample to work I can't do it for the whole. Here's an example of how I load an image:
MediaTracker thetracker = new MediaTracker(null);
Image i_backImage =
(new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("gfx/level1.jpg"))).getImage();
thetracker.addImage(i_backImage,imageTotal);
imageTotal++;
// other images follow plus check if loaded...
private final Image getSprite(Image image, int i, int width, int height)
{
int max_frames_per_line = image.getWidth(null) / width;
// ....
return sprite;
}