Image Loading Time

I have a very Image extensive program, and it is beginning to malfunction due to long loading times and code happening before the images actually appear, which does all kinds of strange things. Is there any line of code i can put anywhere to tell all of the images to load before any code happens? Or is there any way to load them before they're being loaded? Aaaaaaaaah! I'm very confused and at a dead end with this image loading stuff... Thanks for any help!

I use this code:
image = toolkit.getImage("yeh.jpg");
while(image.getWidth(this) == -1) {
     try {
          Thread.sleep(10);
     catch (Exception e) {System.out.println("error");}
}If the image hasn't loaded, image.getWidth will return -1, causing to app to sleep for 10 runs.
When the image has loaded, the app goes on to the next code...
hope that helps, sleep well
izy_t

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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:07:28 -0700
From: [email protected]
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Subject: Optimization on Load Time (Large Images and Sounds)
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