I'm attempting to display a pair of images in a swing gui.  However, no
matter what i try, the images just won't seem to display.  What i'm
trying to do is to subclass JPanel and use it to display the
java.awt.Image resources.  I am loading the images from jpeg files and
using a MediaTracker to ensure that they're loaded.

And then, when the panel's setImage() method is called, it is supposed
to display the new image.  However, it's not.  It's displaying nothing
whatsoever.  I have tried a few tacks on this, up to and including
replacing the JPanel subclass with a variant inheriting from the JLabel
class, and using its setIcon().  Nothing.

For some reason, these images just won't seem to display.

Is there a way i can be assured that they will?  How do i go about
checking if they're loaded?  Or, if that turns out not to be the
problem, can someone maybe give me some input on the rest of it, to
check it out?  I can post the code in a zip file and supply a link to
it.  The images, well, i can supply those too, but since it pulls from
a random selection out of about 10 Mb of images, i'll understand if no
one wants to snag that :)

Thanks again.