Using image as a background in Finder

Hi!
I am in the process of making a CD for submission to send to a company.
As part of the package I have designed some images for use in the BG of the Finder windows. I have opened the window and selected This Window Only, and navigated to the image and selected it. It of course appears. I have repeated this for a folder inside the main window too. A different image.
Then I have burnt the folder as a disk image in Toast.
On mounting the image the first disk folder image isn't present. Instead it is white. However, the second image is there.
I have seen DMGs that have these image sin the BG so i was wondering what is going wrong, or if there is an application that can do this for me?
Thanks in advance

If you look at the window of a CD that has the effect you are looking for in List View, you may see the picture's actually made up of custom icons for empty folders on the CD. Eash custom icon has a postage stamp part of the whole image, and the folders are arranged w/ their icons edge to edge in the window's Icon View.
This is a OS9 and earlier workaround for window BG pix accomplished by various share wares you may still be be to find on VersionTracker. IconMacher was one I recall.
Here's a URL on the topic, but be warned: the illustrations are NOT for the prudish:
http://corz.org/osx/tut/hotdisks.php

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