Aminated gifs only showing the last frame on the 2nd time of viewing

I have 2 animated gifs and on pressing a button i am changing between the 2 on te first click the animated gif runs sucessfully and clicking the button again the 2nd animated gif runs sucessfully. However when i go to run the first animated gif again it only shows the last frame and this continues no matter how many times you press the button. Is there any way of getting it to start from the first frame. By the way just in case it makes a difference both the animated gifs run once they do not continously keep going and that is how i want them to be.

public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e){
     if(corner.contains(e.getX(),e.getY())){
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          setImageFile(gui.getFrontImage());
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public void setImageFile(java.lang.String imageFile) {
     fieldImageFile = imageFile;
/* Get and download the image for the new postcard background */
backgroundImage = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage( fieldImageFile );
     MediaTracker mt = new MediaTracker( this );
     mt.addImage( backgroundImage, 0 );
     try{
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     catch( InterruptedException ie )
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     mt.removeImage(backgroundImage, 0);
public void paint(Graphics g)
{     if( backgroundImage != null )
     g.drawImage( backgroundImage, 0, 0, this );
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