Although the screen is still just blue, I have at least managed to get it to now load the image data without the emulator freaking out and throwing up as many errors.

The nasty looking purple error messages are gone, and all the errors that remain appear to be showing up on the examples, so I'm not "too" worried about that.

Next step is figuring out why on earth the images still aren't showing up on the screen.
Hmmm..