IE not caching images!?!?

Im using IE 6 on Windows and have noticed the browser constantly redownloading the same images over and over. Internet Options - Check New Versions of Page is set to Automatic.

I've tried the following:

a= new Image()

a.src="myimage.gif";

and

%26lt;div style="display:none"%26gt;

%26lt;img src="myimage.gif"%26gt;

%26lt;/div%26gt;

but both techniques have not helped to reduce the 60 seperate HTTP calls the browser is making. FF is fine of course.

Any ideas?

IE not caching images!?!?microsoft publisher

Are the images on your local hard drive? Internet Explorer won't cache them - at least I've never seen it do so.

If the images are on a server is the server set to send headers which tell IE not to cache the images.

Is your "Temporary Internet Files" set to a drive or folder that you have write access to? If pages are cached there as you surf, or you can copy a file there, then it is.

How much space is set aside for your cache, is it enough?

I've heard there is an issue with IE not caching images loaded from css. Is that the case here?