I must be an idiot. I am working my way through a tutorial

java.sun.com/.../pa
ge6.jsp

and everything was going fine until the part where we add an image
and some text to a JLabel. The text is displaying fine, the image is
simply not displaying. No error on compile, just no image.

Yes, I have verified the image is in the same folder as the .class
file...code is:

package divelog;
/**
* This class creates the content on the
* Welcome tabbed pane in the Dive Log
* application.
* @version 1.0
*/

import javax.swing.*; //imported for buttons, labels, and images
import java.awt.*; //imported for layout manager


public class Welcome extends JPanel
{ //Opening class

// Variables for objects
private JLabel jl;
private JTextArea ta;
private JLabel diver;

public Welcome()
{ // Opens constructor


jl = new JLabel("test", new ImageIcon("diveflag.gif"), JLabel.CENTER);
jl.setFont(new Font("Times-Roman",
Font.BOLD, 17));
jl.setBackground(Color.blue);

setLayout(new BorderLayout());


add(jl,BorderLayout.CENTER);
} // Closes constructor


}//Closes class Welcome

//end code

The text behaves as expected - but no image at all.

What in the world am I doing wrong? This seems like such a simple
thing...