Favorite inexpensive image/icon editor?

I have been creating a lot of small images for buttons, and I'm curious what everyone else out there uses. I've been using Ultimate Paint for a while, but it has a few critical bugs when working with GIFs (don't know about other formats).
Ideally I'd like to find an editor that
* runs under Windows XP. *NIX is not an option for me.
* supports single-pixel paint, solid fill, circles, rectangles, lines, and text
* allows an image to be viewed from normal to at least 20x magnification
* loads/saves images in at least GIF, preferably PNG and JPG formats
* allows custom color definition
* preferably can create transparent GIFs
* costs no more than $100
Ultimate Paint has fairly frequently silently saved my work as a 1x1 pixel image, has a tendency to replace the contents of the clipboard with a solid black rectangle, and periodically doesn't behave correctly when cropping an image.
XP's built-in paint program mangles the colors when saving in GIF format, and only supports magnification to 8x.
Since I'm developing in Java, MS Visual Studio is not really an option.
Does pretty much everyone use GIF/PNG format? What about BMP?

BMP is a format that is understood on Windows. Since there is no support for it in Java I don't use it.
As for an ImageEditor, right now I'm using GIMP on Linux for minor things. It looks quite powerful and good but it's not been easy to learn and understand. I need to read up on it somewhere.
When I worked in Windows I liked using a Graphic Viewer called IrfanView
http://www.irfanview.com
It allowed me to save files in multiple formats - jpg, gif and so on. Furthermore it's not a big download. And the application is free. I don't know if it can function as an "image editor" though so this may not be what you are looking for. But you could try it. I know that it can convert files to other formats and I recall using it to crop some images.

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