Blank Applet on Startup

I am attempting to correct an issue with a Java applet used by my
university. On startup, in both IE6 and Opera 8.5x, the applet window
is blank UNTIL one moves the mouse pointer onto the applet window.
Then the contents of the applet window appears, and everything seems
fine.

The very last thing called from the init() function is super.repaint();

As far as I can tell, this is an old applet written circa 1998 and does
not use Swing.

Is there something better I can do to force a repaint at the end of
init() ?

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