Game Map Making

I got a problem, not too sure how to go about doing this coding wise.
What i do is load in an image (a strip of multiple images), make it a bufferedImage, Then i paint my Canvas by doing a dbl for loop, getting the subimage, and painting that.
So now, my canvas is composed of a bunch of subimages, that are all bufferedImages.
What i want to do is somehow make one BufferedImage from all the subimages, then just paint that WHOLE larger image onto my canvas. That way, when movement takes place, all i have to do is translate the larger image to make it look like a person is moving.
Currently, my code doesn't do that. It just paints a bunch of little images. How would i create a larger Image, from a bunch of little ones?

Thanks for the tip JBanes. i'll look into it.
Particle, im hoping my maps aren't going to be that
big. Im not creating a huge map. I know there are
other methods, like page flipping, but those seemed
too complicated for what I wanted to do.
If it does turn out that it runs outa memory, i'll
have to try a different method.
thanks.how big is not big?
also, if you want your image to be cached in vram (i.e. an automatic image) it cannot be bigger than the screen size. (an undocumented limitation of Volatile/automatic images)

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[email protected]
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the way this is set up is that the game over menue is a movie clip with the play again button in it i want to have a back movie clip to make it go to the first frame
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package com.alienattack{
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