HAHA!

.. Thanks guys for your feedback, but I feel really stupid now. I was getting so worried about having to make drastic changes to the code and how things were being rendered onto the screen (such as how Fall suggested), that I completely forgot to try just converting the graphics to bitmaps.

I'm not losing any frames using render's suggestion. I don't know how I could've overlooked such a simple thing; my mind must've been somewhere else.

Thanks again!

Viza.