diff --git a/src/java/com/threerings/media/image/ImageIOLoader.java b/src/java/com/threerings/media/image/ImageIOLoader.java
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--- a/src/java/com/threerings/media/image/ImageIOLoader.java
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-//
-// $Id: ImageIOLoader.java,v 1.6 2003/01/13 22:49:46 mdb Exp $
-
-package com.threerings.media.image;
-
-import java.awt.Image;
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.InputStream;
-import java.util.Iterator;
-
-import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
-import javax.imageio.ImageReader;
-import javax.imageio.stream.ImageInputStream;
-import javax.imageio.stream.MemoryCacheImageInputStream;
-
-import com.samskivert.util.StringUtil;
-import java.io.RandomAccessFile;
-
-import com.threerings.media.Log;
-
-/**
- * Loads images using the <code>ImageIO</code> services provided by J2SE
- * 1.4 (and, presumably, above).
- */
-public class ImageIOLoader implements ImageLoader
-{
-    public ImageIOLoader ()
-    {
-        // we need to reference ImageIO in the constructor to force the
-        // classloader to attempt to load the ImageIO classes
-        ImageIO.setUseCache(true);
-
-//         String[] fmts = ImageIO.getReaderFormatNames();
-//         Log.info("Got formats " + StringUtil.toString(fmts) + ".");
-        
-        Iterator iter = ImageIO.getImageReadersByFormatName("png");
-        if (iter.hasNext()) {
-            _reader = (ImageReader)iter.next();
-        } else {
-            Log.warning("Aiya! No reader.");
-        }
-    }
-
-    // documentation inherited
-    public Image loadImage (InputStream source)
-        throws IOException
-    {
-        // this seems to choke when decoding the compressed image data
-        // which may mean it's a JDK bug or something, but I'd like to see
-        // it resolved so that the image manager will work on applets
-
-//         ImageInputStream iis = null;
-// // //         iis = ImageIO.createImageInputStream(source);
-//         iis = new MemoryCacheImageInputStream(source);
-
-// // //         Log.info("Created stream " + iis + "/" + source);
-//         _reader.setInput(iis, true, false);
-//         return _reader.read(0);
-
-//         return ImageIO.read(new MemoryCacheImageInputStream(source));
-        return ImageIO.read(source);
-    }
-
-    protected ImageReader _reader;
-}
diff --git a/src/java/com/threerings/media/image/ToolkitLoader.java b/src/java/com/threerings/media/image/ToolkitLoader.java
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-//
-// $Id: ToolkitLoader.java,v 1.3 2003/01/08 04:09:02 mdb Exp $
-
-package com.threerings.media.image;
-
-import java.awt.Component;
-import java.awt.Image;
-import java.awt.MediaTracker;
-import java.awt.Toolkit;
-
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.InputStream;
-
-import org.apache.commons.io.StreamUtils;
-
-/**
- * Loads images using the default AWT toolkit (for compatibility with
- * pre-1.4 JVMs).
- */
-public class ToolkitLoader implements ImageLoader
-{
-    public ToolkitLoader (Component context)
-    {
-        // do something more informative than NPE if we're misconfigured
-        if (context == null) {
-            String errmsg = "Toolkit image loader constructed without a " +
-                "context via which we can create a MediaTracker. If the " +
-                "image manager may fall back to using the Toolkit image " +
-                "loader (like it just did), then you have to provide a " +
-                "component instance for it at construct time. Thanks and " +
-                "have a nice day.";
-            throw new RuntimeException(errmsg);
-        }
-
-        _toolkit = context.getToolkit();
-        _tracker = new MediaTracker(context);
-    }
-
-    // documentation inherited
-    public Image loadImage (InputStream source)
-        throws IOException
-    {
-        byte[] data = StreamUtils.streamAsBytes(source, READ_BUFFER_SIZE);
-        Image image = _toolkit.createImage(data);
-
-        // we now have to wait for the image to finish decoding (this all
-        // apparently happens on another thread. yay!)
-        _tracker.addImage(image, 0);
-
-        // if something goes horribly awry, we don't want to go into an
-        // infinite loop, so we bound the number of times we'll allow
-        // ourselves to be interrupted and loop
-        boolean done = false;
-        for (int i = 0; (i < 1000) && !done; i++) {
-            try {
-                _tracker.waitForAll();
-                done = true;
-            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
-                // loop back around
-            }
-        }
-
-        return image;
-    }
-
-    /** Our AWT toolkit which we use to create images. */
-    protected Toolkit _toolkit;
-
-    /** Used to wait for images to load. */
-    protected MediaTracker _tracker;
-
-    /** The size of the read buffer used to load the image data. */
-    protected static final int READ_BUFFER_SIZE = 4096;
-}