image display

[Rick Rice]

I'm using metacard 2.4.3, Mac OS X
I use the following script to display an image;

on showtheimage
   global questioncard, answer, question
   set itemdel to "/"
   put item 1 of questioncard into question
   put item 2 of questioncard into answer
   put the filename of this stack into stackpath
   put "simple/"&question into the last item of stackpath
   set the filename of image 1 of cd "displayimage" to stackpath
   go card "displayimage"
end showtheimage

All is fine until I create a standalone file. The image is not 
displayed.
As well, even though I have the finder preferences set to display the 
extensions, the ".app" extension does not appear in the file name.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Rick

Plan!  I'd rather be surprised.