Jar file access

Hello
I've packaged my classes and relevent images and html help into a jar file in a structured directory format.
I'm using the method this.getClass().getResource(String path) to access the files.
On linux my program executes 100%, images load, html reads fine no problems
On Windows 98 i cannot access the images in the jar, it throws a null pointer at the resource loader call
Any explanations/solutions?

omw, that makes so much sense i could kick myself :)
eg:
ImageIcon icon = new
ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("images"+File.seperato
Char+"icon.gif"));
must the string be in URL format?Yes, it should be:
ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("images/icon.gif");
I dunno if it is just me, but I sometimes get problems using the getClass().getResource(...) method and usually end up using:
getClass().getClassLoader().getResource("images/icon.gif");

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